Question About Ordering Airline Tickets?

[michellemybelle]

Forgive me for my ignorance! I've never flown before, much less bought plane tickets. I was thinking about ordering my tickets from KY to PA through something like hotwire.com or priceline.com. How do you get the tickets with those sites--do you print them out at home, take a slip to the airport and pick them up there or does the company mail them to you? I'm hoping that this is making sense! I just the advice of more experienced travelers!

[snow_girl]

You got it right. You print it off at home then bring it to the airport, just as you said.

[13000km]

Yep, bring the confirmation email and give it to the guy at the check in together with your passports and he will give you your boarding pass. (:

[mickey's bird]

you don't need a printout of the confirmation. You can just save the confirmation number on your phone and you will be fine. I usually have the confirmation email on my phone but I usually just swipe my passport at the self check-in kiosk for international flights or my miles card and my information pops up for domestic flights.

[Haley53]

I think it depends. I booked Delta and they gave me the option of checking in online and printing out my boarding passes. What I did was choose to print out the confirmation e-mail and write down the confirmation number (this ended up being necessary). I checked in at a self-check in kiosk by scanning the bar code on the e-mail they sent me and then had to enter the confirmation number. When I've travelled internationally in the past, I've brought the confirmation e-mail in up to the check-in desk itself. Usually the e-mails you receive have pretty clear instructions on what to do to check-in.

[michellemybelle]

Thanks everyone! I ended up flying with Continental and printing out my boarding passes at home and taking them to the airport with me.

[JennyRW]

that is what I do, I just print it and bring it to the airport, sometimes I do the check out online the naight before my trip so you can print directly your boarding pass, but I only do that when I don't bring any baggage, to save time... If I bring a suitcase or something then I don't do that because you need to do the line and everything to leave your stuff...