Confusion
I received an envelope from the travel agency today and it contained a lot of papers. White papers, yellow papers, important looking papers, for-my-information papers…
I’m all confused about which papers I actually need to take with me on the trip and will the people at the airports really believe that they are official papers. They don’t look very official. I was expecting a wonderfully thick booklet of all the different plane tickets I’d need (well, only 2 and 2) but now I only have a receipt, an itinerary, electronic ticket/receipt/itinerary, and I printed an eTicket Receipt Duplicate Copy which sounds very shady.
I think I’ll go to the travel agency on Thursday to get my head screwed on straight and get all these papers sorted out — I should be able to get the Visa through them so I get two birds with one stone. Now that I think about it, maybe I get more official papers after check-in.
I really wanted a thick plane ticket booklet that I could laminate or frame…
If you have an eTicket you don’t need or get any kind of paper ticket. I know it may feel funny at first, but you’ll get used to it after a few flights. All you need to have is your passport when you show up at the airport. You will get a boarding pass at the check-in though.
There’s some information about eTickets in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-ticket
And Area has information in Finnish:
http://tinyurl.com/j8m5p
I think I have an eTicket but I’m not sure. The “Receipt Duplicate Copy” confuses me the most. Oh well, I’ll try and go to the travel agency tomorrow so I can ask all kinds of stupid questions
Take all the papers – that’s what I’d do. And then I’d put them into something where I’d have to go searching through everything to find them cuz I’d forget where I put them – but I’d have them.
That’s pretty much what I was planning to do.
Now I know which one of the papers is the eTicket, though, so I’m pleased.