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Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:49 pm
by Turkeytop
I used to love flying but now I hate it. Two hours in the dentist chair is less of an ordeal than two hours on a airplane.
We're booked to fly out of Detroit this weekend on Delta Airlines. Now they tell me I have to check in online and download our boarding passes online. I don't know how to do anything like that.
If I go to the Delta website I just get promotions for lots of different vacation packages.
If we show up at the airport without having checked in online and without boarding passes will we be allowed to fly? Or should we just forget about it and stay home? Forfeit our money.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:59 pm
by Matt
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:49 pm
I used to love flying but now I hate it. Two hours in the dentist chair is less of an ordeal than two hours on a airplane.
We're booked to fly out of Detroit this weekend on Delta Airlines. Now they tell me I have to check in online and download our boarding passes online. I don't know how to do anything like that.
If I go to the Delta website I just get promotions for lots of different vacation packages.
If we show up at the airport without having checked in online and without boarding passes will we be allowed to fly? Or should we just forget about it and stay home? Forfeit our money.
Log in from your desktop and print the boarding passes at home. You will be fine. Also, do NOT stop at Gordon Biersch in the terminal - it sucks.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:05 pm
by Turkeytop
Matt wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:59 pm
Log in from your desktop and print the boarding passes at home. You will be fine. Also, do NOT stop at Gordon Biersch in the terminal - it sucks.
But I don't know how to log in from my desk top.. So. in answer to my question, looks like I'm SOL
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:24 pm
by Matt
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:05 pm
Matt wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:59 pm
Log in from your desktop and print the boarding passes at home. You will be fine. Also, do NOT stop at Gordon Biersch in the terminal - it sucks.
But I don't know how to log in from my desk top.. So. in answer to my question, looks like I'm SOL
If you can log in to here, you can log in to Delta.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:30 pm
by Turkeytop
Matt wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:24 pm
If you can log in to here, you can log in to Delta.
But here, it shows me where to login. There is a box for my user name and a box for my password and a button to click on for login. Delta doesn't have any of that.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:37 pm
by Bryce
There are kiosks at the airport in front of the Delta counter which will allow you to check in print your boarding passes as well as get your bag tags. If you have difficulty there a nice older gentleman or older female non-union employee will help you through
Id get there at least a couple hours early or you may not be able to sit next to your lovely bride because you pick your seats when you pre-check in.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:40 pm
by Turkeytop
Bryce wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:37 pm
There are kiosks at the airport in front of the Delta counter which will allow you to check in print your boarding passes as well as get your bag tags. If you have difficulty there a nice older gentleman or older female non-union employee will help you through
Are they in some kind of uniform? My Dentist wears a white coat.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:40 pm
by Honeyman
Ditto what Bryce said...it'll be a piece of cake.
Where you going?
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:51 pm
by Turkeytop
Honeyman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:40 pm
Where you going?
Las Vegas. Attending my Union's convention.
My wife is coming along. While I'm in my sessions during the day, she can be in the casino winning money for me.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:09 pm
by Honeyman
Nice! You got dining reservations? Need any city tips? Where you staying?
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:25 pm
by Turkeytop
Honeyman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:09 pm
Nice! You got dining reservations? Need any city tips? Where you staying?
Bally's. That will be our first time there. We usually stay at MGM.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:31 pm
by Honeyman
You're real close to Mon Ami Gabi in Paris. Probably my favorite LV restaurant. Great food without costing you a mortgage. Everybody wants to sit outside to watch the fountains, but they don't take reservations for the patio. Tip is to make reservations inside, get there and say you'll wait for an outside table and they always kick you up.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:44 pm
by Turkeytop
The flight doesn't get in until Sunday evening. Monday and Tuesday nights we'll be attending receptions connected to the convention. Won't be eating out anywhere before Wednesday.
I've now succeeeded in getting into Delta's chech in page. It shows the seat layout to select your seats. But everyone I go to says it's already taken.
I might just call my dentist and book a root canal instead.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:00 pm
by Bryce
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:44 pm
I might just call my dentist and book a root canal instead.
If he's booked up, ring your proctologist. May have a different opening.
Re: Travel Advice Needed
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:03 pm
by Turkeytop
If all the seats on the plane are already taken, do they allow standing like on the subway?