I believe that many friends have the experience of flying for the first time. After all, everything will have its first time. Isn't it very disturbing at this time? So what are the precautions for the first flight? Take a look at the detailed process for your first flight, so you won't be at a loss.
Flight process:
Arrive at the airport
Pay attention to the time, because the airline stipulates that the check-in should be stopped 30 minutes before the flight takes off, so it is better to arrive at the airport 1 hour before the flight takes off.
Check in
Check in is to change the boarding pass. Look at the counter where your flight is handled. There is a display screen at the airport that tells you which flight is at which counter. Find the corresponding counter and give the ticket and ID card to the airport check-in personnel. If you have large luggage, you can check it here. Luggage less than 20kg in economy class is free. If the liquid exceeds 100ml, it should be consigned. Please note that the checked baggage should not contain any prohibited items. After the check-in, the check-in personnel will return the passenger coupon, boarding pass, luggage ticket and ID card of the ticket to you.
Pass security check
To the security inspection channel, there is a security inspection counter at the channel entrance, which will give the passenger coupon, boarding pass and ID card of the ticket to the security inspector, who will stamp the boarding pass if there is no problem. Then go through the security gate. Take your belongings with you from the X-ray security machine next to the security gate. You need to pass through the security gate yourself. Go into the waiting hall if there is no problem with the security check.
wait for a flight
After passing the security check, the boarding pass will indicate which gate your flight is boarding at, and find the terminal corresponding to the gate. The number of gate is in the number of terminal. The location of each terminal will be shown on the display screen of the airport. If you are not clear, you can ask the airport service personnel. Find the waiting hall and rest there. Wait for the announcement to board. If you smoke, you can smoke in the smoking room. Remember to listen to the radio.
boarding
After hearing the boarding announcement, there will be service personnel tearing the boarding pass at the boarding gate. Go to the boarding gate and hand over the boarding pass to the service personnel. The service personnel will tear up a small piece of the boarding pass and return the rest to the passengers. Then they will take the boarding pass and follow others on the plane.
Find the location on the machine
The boarding pass is marked with its own position, such as 5D and 11C. The number represents the row. The seats in each row are in rows a, B, C, D, e and F. the seat number on the aircraft is marked on the bulkhead (above the seat) where the luggage is placed. Find your seat, buckle up and turn off your cell phone before takeoff.
meals
During the flight, the airline will distribute free drinks. If the long flight route is in the dining time, there will be free meals (just a box of rice, which is not delicious, and the quantity is small), and snacks will be sent on the short flight route.
Arrive
After the plane arrives at the destination, if there is baggage in the check-in, remember to pick up the baggage, and there will be a place to pick up the baggage on the way to the exit.
Precautions for flying
It is necessary to complete the formalities half an hour before the plane takes off, so it is better to arrive at the airport in advance according to the situation, especially when there are many people like golden week and Spring Festival. Some airports are very strict. If you don't let them do it when it's time, you can't let them do it. For example, Beijing airport.
If you like the window seat, you can ask the check-in staff to arrange a window seat for you when you change your boarding pass. Generally, there is no problem, unless you go late and the seat is arranged for someone else.
When checking luggage, some airports will charge an insurance fee of about 10 yuan, such as Fuzhou airport; if the luggage is not locked, some airports will force you to pay 5 yuan for a small lock, such as Guangzhou airport.
It's better to put the fruit knife in the luggage, otherwise 90% may be confiscated. In addition, small animals can't be brought on the plane, and they need to have quarantine certificates for shipment, which is quite troublesome. Potted plants and flowers can be used.
The check-in voucher is usually pasted on the ticket. After arriving and taking out the baggage, there will be staff to check whether the check-in voucher corresponds to the label on the baggage. Be careful not to take someone else's and lose your own.
Flight delay or cancellation
Generally, as long as the plane is late, the airport will provide free drinks or meals during the meal time (it seems that the night is easier to be taken care of than the noon). If the plane at night says it can't fly that day, it depends. It is the reason for aircraft maintenance, flight deployment, etc. the airport will provide accommodation. Due to weather, emergencies, air traffic control and other reasons, tickets can only be refunded or changed. In this case, the airport does not care about food and accommodation.
Overbooking
Overbooking is when a flight sells more tickets than seats. In order to protect their own revenue, almost every airline has a certain proportion of oversold phenomenon to ensure the use of flight seats. Foreign airlines generally control the proportion of overbooked tickets to about 3% of the sold tickets, while China stipulates that the overbooked tickets cannot exceed 5%.
Then someone might ask, isn't that why some people can't board the plane? Yes. In this case, the general practice of the airport is: first of all, look for volunteers among passengers to change to other flights. If you don't have enough volunteers, refuse to board. The airline will issue compensation certificate and supporting travel preferential plan for the passengers who voluntarily change flights; for the passengers who are refused to board, they will receive cash compensation. Of course, they can also request to provide round-trip ticket compensation certificate and corresponding travel preferential plan to replace cash compensation.
Once rejected, the passenger is entitled to claim compensation from the airline. The specific compensation will be handled immediately at the check-in counter, and an agreement will be signed to waive the right to trace the liability to the airline in the future.
In order to avoid the situation that the journey is delayed due to being taken down at the airport, several points need to be noted:
(1) The tighter the route, the easier it is to oversold.
(2) Try to arrive at the airport as early as possible. Late arrivals may be taken in case of oversold.
(3) The more tickets are discounted, the easier it is to get them, so it's better for comrades who have bought discount tickets to go through formalities earlier.