Frequent Flier? Christopher Elliot says: Save Your Boarding Pass
I'll be perfectly honest: I haven't saved a boarding pass in the last 20 years. But if you trash your boarding pass and your miles go missing, you could be throwing away the one thing an airline will insist on to credit your frequent flier account.
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el expert Christopher Elliot recently recounted the tale of one hapless Air France customer who couldn't get credit for some miles because he isn't an insane packrat who saves ticket stubs. From the blog:
It seems that Air France requires the original boarding passes to recognize my flights so they can give me credit (and protect the 101,000 miles I presently have in their program).The bottom line: You should save your boarding pass until after you see your miles properly credited to your account. If you check in online and print your boarding pass from home, print two copies and leave one at home in your files. That way, you don't have to worry about saving scraps of paper and can just drop your used boarding pass in the trash when you're done. [via The Consumerist]
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