Flight delayed, lose access to boarding pass in app

[Ade]

I have read about other flyers presenting old BPs (paper too) when they have seat reassignments,

Any seat reassignments prior to boarding (or even after boarding has commenced) will be flagged as "Seat Error" with a red light flashing when the BP is scanned at the gate ... From personal experience, often times this means an upgrade (on CX, UL) and sadly only a seat change in QF.

 

[RichardMEL]

If someone tried to scan an old BP it would flag it, and well to be honest if someone was tgrying a shifty to present an old BP to a crew member "I'm sitting in 4A" well when the real occupant appears and the manifest confirms someone will be in a bit of hot water. so I don't see an old BP as being an issue. (and usually new BP's are issued for upgrade, or (hopefully requested) seat change so why would you?)

but yes, this just seems to be an AU thing to check when on board. I've had to remember to NOT show it getting on other airlines to avoid he weird looks or like "ok sure, you turn left" or whatever type response. It's a hard habit to break

 

[tdimdad]

I mean, a very very outlier, conservative, don't-trust-anything/anyone thinking - may be someone had a chance took a screenshot, altered the source & destination, flight number, seat number, pax name etc ... Not hinting that someone can do it ... but it's not difficult I'd say, given the technology today ...

What I just said may not even make sense ... It's just that I come from QA background and I doubt pretty much "everything"

Having earlier had some interest in information / data security as part of my work, I've been thinking of it along the same lines. With the modern tools which are easily available to everyone, anyone with some competency could easily create an image that looks like a genuine BP (or quickly alter an existing one). The hardest part to generate would be the right QR code for the occassion, especially if the system regenerates the QR's on a regular basis.

 

[SYD]

but yes, this just seems to be an AU thing to check when on board. I've had to remember to NOT show it getting on other airlines to avoid he weird looks or like "ok sure, you turn left" or whatever type response. It's a hard habit to break

Pretty much every international flight I’ve done they’ve checked BPs. It could be a wide body thing. 1st or 2nd aisle… US airlines tend to check BPs.

 

[Lynda2475]

One of many reasons I hate Android OS. Apple wallet has had the ability store BPs and all sorts of stuff for years.

That wasn’t intended to be an iOS v Android pissing competition but they really do need to do more.

So does Android - I have theatre tickets, Jetstar boarding passes and other overseas airline boarding passes in my Google Wallet from years ago, But for some dumb reason QF IT decided not to offer this in the Android App even though there are more android users than ios worldwide.

The work around is to screenshot the boarding pass (simple swipe of palm across the screen). This is not new, was happening well before Covid.

Interestingly AA also only offer apple wallet, but tell android users to print the boarding pass (btw its fine to print to PDF and then display on your phone).

 

[Ade]

But for some dumb reason QF IT decided not to offer this in the Android App

As someone who exclusively use Apple products - this is news to me. I always thought that QF app let pax add BP to their Google Wallet app. How (embarrassingly) ignorant of me !

 

[Lynda2475]

Yes it is crazy that Jet star allow it but not QF. Such a simple feature which should be standard.