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Tag: passport
I had to change my son’s name, but the airline won’t help me
Lisa Coris changes the name on her son’s passport, but now Ethiopian Airlines wants to charge her $300. Is that too much? Read more “I had to change my son’s name, but the airline won’t help me”
Avoid visa problems this summer. Here’s how.
If you travel abroad this summer, look out for visa trouble. Read more “Avoid visa problems this summer. Here’s how.”
Delta told us we needed passports for Puerto Rico — is that true?
Stephanie Merck is told she needs a passport to fly to Puerto Rico. It’s not true. Who should pay for the passport?
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“You are my last hope”
I want to help Krista Krauss. I think she deserves to be helped. And when you start an email with “You are my last hope,” how can I not at least try?
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The ship sailed, but they didn’t
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When airlines misread passport rules, who pays?
Question: My husband and I were scheduled to take a Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to San Jose, Costa Rica. The afternoon before my flight, my dog chewed a corner off the front page of my husband’s passport and we were concerned about having proper documentation.
We arrived at the airport almost three hours early in order to have enough time to ask a ticket agent. He seemed seasoned and professional, and he assured us that there would be no problem with the passport, as the number could still be manually inputted.
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Their passports sailed to the Bahamas, but they didn’t
Anne Newman’s holiday cruise from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the Carnival Pride got off to the worst start possible when two members of her party — her brother and father — were left standing at the dock because of a paperwork problem.
No, they didn’t bring the wrong birth certificate. Instead, they had inadvertently packed their travel documents in their bags and checked them.
Newman wants to be compensated for their denied boarding, and she wants me to help her.
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