well my buddy has been going to Punta Cana a few times a year for several years now. He is a canadian who has some sort of green card status in america, but isnt an american citizen. He has lived here for 35 years. He went with his wife and 3 kids, got to the delta check in at JFK in new york, they hit their snag.
This is the first time they have flown since the new rules. They booked the flight last october!! First off it is obvous to them that the plane was way over booked and tensions are high. So the delta lady wasnt to understanding when my buddy didnt have a passport. he doesnt have one period. They told him he wasnt getting on the plane. He had his green card( or what ever it actually is) and his other identifications....but they still said no.
So of the options available, they pick sending the wife and kids on that flight and he would get another flight the next day..or try to anyway...
In my mind I am thinking one day wont matter, he still wont have the passport...but after many calls and argueing...he is told if he wants he can buy a one way ticket to the DR with delta...because the DR doesnt care if you have a passport or not...but that they wont let him get back on a delta flight to JFK at the end of the vacation...so he books an Air canada flight to Monteal Canada from Punta Cana.. and figures he will just drive to his house he has in Quebec for a few days of skiing... it'll that cost a lot of money of course.....
fast forward to the end of vacation.....when saying goodby at Punta Cana when they were leaving, they told the story to Delta there, and those employees said...NO you can enter with that green card...that is an acceptable form of ID.....but the flight is full so he cant buy a ticket for that flight....they print out a paper showing that in fact after the few forms of document that are well known that are acceptable...in parenthesis, is the wording that this form of ID he has is also acceptable.....well he flies into montreal , but there is no snow...so he drives home in a rental car.....after a few days his wife finds all the info that proves that he was legal with his documents.....a travel agency says right off they know that docment is ok.
funny though I went to the state dept web site and i cant find this little piece of information.....the passport, airnexus card and merchant mariners card, and some temporary passport card.....but that is it...
so basically there is info out there , that isnt shared very well...and some employees of the airlines know about it andf some dont..... or dont want to know whenthey ahve over booked a flight
on another note they could not believe the amount of hookers guys were bringing back to their rooms every night...they said the guy next door had a different one every night.....and they would pass men with their OBVIOUS( not my term) hookers walking in the hall!!!!!!!!! This is a supposedly 5STAR resort!!!
plus the hotel The Paradesious( spelling may be off) over booked as well, and they were put into a sister hotel for 2 days, then moved!!!!
this was the middle of April
So much for his relaxing break from his buisness... ha ha ha
probably made him double his blood prssure medicine!!!!!!!
bob
This is the first time they have flown since the new rules. They booked the flight last october!! First off it is obvous to them that the plane was way over booked and tensions are high. So the delta lady wasnt to understanding when my buddy didnt have a passport. he doesnt have one period. They told him he wasnt getting on the plane. He had his green card( or what ever it actually is) and his other identifications....but they still said no.
So of the options available, they pick sending the wife and kids on that flight and he would get another flight the next day..or try to anyway...
In my mind I am thinking one day wont matter, he still wont have the passport...but after many calls and argueing...he is told if he wants he can buy a one way ticket to the DR with delta...because the DR doesnt care if you have a passport or not...but that they wont let him get back on a delta flight to JFK at the end of the vacation...so he books an Air canada flight to Monteal Canada from Punta Cana.. and figures he will just drive to his house he has in Quebec for a few days of skiing... it'll that cost a lot of money of course.....
fast forward to the end of vacation.....when saying goodby at Punta Cana when they were leaving, they told the story to Delta there, and those employees said...NO you can enter with that green card...that is an acceptable form of ID.....but the flight is full so he cant buy a ticket for that flight....they print out a paper showing that in fact after the few forms of document that are well known that are acceptable...in parenthesis, is the wording that this form of ID he has is also acceptable.....well he flies into montreal , but there is no snow...so he drives home in a rental car.....after a few days his wife finds all the info that proves that he was legal with his documents.....a travel agency says right off they know that docment is ok.
funny though I went to the state dept web site and i cant find this little piece of information.....the passport, airnexus card and merchant mariners card, and some temporary passport card.....but that is it...
so basically there is info out there , that isnt shared very well...and some employees of the airlines know about it andf some dont..... or dont want to know whenthey ahve over booked a flight
on another note they could not believe the amount of hookers guys were bringing back to their rooms every night...they said the guy next door had a different one every night.....and they would pass men with their OBVIOUS( not my term) hookers walking in the hall!!!!!!!!! This is a supposedly 5STAR resort!!!
plus the hotel The Paradesious( spelling may be off) over booked as well, and they were put into a sister hotel for 2 days, then moved!!!!
this was the middle of April
So much for his relaxing break from his buisness... ha ha ha
probably made him double his blood prssure medicine!!!!!!!
bob
