No phone boarding passes?

[RooFlyer]

Did you have a paper chit? Just curious to know how you got past the gate without scanning your card or phone. When you do the paper chit is produced.

Who, me? I didn't make it clear in the OP, sorry. I had a paper BP as usual, but the pax behind me got bailed up at the plane door having only her phone. She said it was scanned as usual and she thought that's all that should happen. I noted in my TR how it was a bit of a shermozzle at the gate, so anything could have happened.

 

[davidj]

A chit?

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

A chit?
Yes, a very flimsy piece of paper, and it won't last long if you are one of those who like to keep things as a memento of your travels.
It looses its blackness if your hands have a bit of oil on it, or hand cream if domestic flight, or a line of nothingness appears part way through it...
After the flight, the paper does not last all that long.
Presupposes it saves QF money by not giving us better paper stocks for the gate issued seat details chit/or use dot matrix printouts like what they do on their rolls of flight passenger lists that seems to print at the service desk with no one there, ...

 

[Jack_OC]

I also find it interesting that QF requires the paper printout - I have used mobile BPs on numerous airlines both in Australia and elsewhere, and QF are unique in doing this IME. I have two theories about why QF require it:

1. There was (perhaps still is?) a rule that pax turn off their phones if boarding via the tarmac/stairs. If people complied with that, there would then be delays at the aircraft door while people turned their phones back on before finding the mobile BP, so perhaps the paper slip was/is intended to avoid that issue.
2. As far as I can tell, if you check in and get a mobile BP, and your seat assignment changes, the QF system does not seem to be capable of updating the mobile BP.

BTW, I once had a really weird experience with this. I was boarding a QF domestic flight with a mobile BP and got the paper slip as usual. On reaching the aircraft I went to take my assigned seat, only to find someone else in it. I politely said that I thought they were in my seat, and showed the BP on my phone. They showed me their (conventional hard copy) BP showing the same seat number. I then checked the paper slip I was given, which showed a different seat number - which as it happened was in J! Presumably I had been given an op-up but didn't know about it - I don't recall anything being said by the gate agent to alert me to this, but it was about 6am so perhaps I was just half asleep!

 

[Happy Trails]

1. There was (perhaps still is?) a rule that pax turn off their phones if boarding via the tarmac/stairs. If people complied with that, there would then be delays at the aircraft door while people turned their phones back on before finding the mobile BP, so perhaps the paper slip was/is intended to avoid that issue.
!

The rule now is not to use the phone on the tarmac.
It doesn't have to be turned off.

 

[Jack_OC]

The rule now is not to use the phone on the tarmac.
It doesn't have to be turned off.

Yeah I had a feeling it had changed - makes sense since you don't even have to turn phones off on board anymore. Still though, this could explain why QF introduced the "paper chit" system in the first place, and perhaps they just haven't revised the system in light of the revised rules.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I also find it interesting that QF requires the paper printout - I have used mobile BPs on numerous airlines both in Australia and elsewhere, and QF are unique in doing this IME. I have two theories about why QF require it:

1. There was (perhaps still is?) a rule that pax turn off their phones if boarding via the tarmac/stairs. If people complied with that, there would then be delays at the aircraft door while people turned their phones back on before finding the mobile BP, so perhaps the paper slip was/is intended to avoid that issue.
2. As far as I can tell, if you check in and get a mobile BP, and your seat assignment changes, the QF system does not seem to be capable of updating the mobile BP.

BTW, I once had a really weird experience with this. I was boarding a QF domestic flight with a mobile BP and got the paper slip as usual. On reaching the aircraft I went to take my assigned seat, only to find someone else in it. I politely said that I thought they were in my seat, and showed the BP on my phone. They showed me their (conventional hard copy) BP showing the same seat number. I then checked the paper slip I was given, which showed a different seat number - which as it happened was in J! Presumably I had been given an op-up but didn't know about it - I don't recall anything being said by the gate agent to alert me to this, but it was about 6am so perhaps I was just half asleep!

Upgraded to J me noticing at the gate at MEL domestic, as in your case, with QFd, yep, my first time I got QF SG, it (the QF system), did it to me!
I already had QP so had used it already that day.
Y was full of high school kids, my only op up ever with QF.
It always pays to have a look at the chit.
It was a nice surprise pressie from QF though.

 

[Flying mermaid]

It's a bit redundant to even have a secondary check on-board the aircraft. Most overseas airlines don't bother.

i like it - feels quite welcoming. Apart from that when departing from Antalya (Turkey) a few years ago, they managed to get passengers on the wrong planes. It was a very busy day with a number of planes departing at the same time and you walked across the tarmac to your plane. Somehow passengers followed the wrong paths and a few passengers ended up in the wrong planes. Took forever to sort it out, but here the passengers woukd have (hopefully) been identified at the door of the plane...