Delta Airlines' credit card policy for boarding passes

Beware! Air Canada does not do this nonsense all you need is your passport.
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After spending a wonderful week visiting my cousins Melvyn and Diane in London, my wife and I headed to Heathrow Airport.

When it was our turn to use a kiosk to print our boarding passes, the machine instructed me to swipe the credit card used to purchase our tickets.

The problem: I didn’t bring all my cards with me, and the one I’d used to buy our tickets was at home.

The kiosk gave me no other option to start the check-in process. It wouldn’t let me enter our trip’s confirmation code, as I had done in Seattle before boarding our flight to London, or put in a ticket number.

My wife and I were directed to a Delta supervisor, who explained that without presenting the credit card used to purchase the tickets she could not issue our boarding passes.

The agent explained that Delta’s policy protects us from credit card fraud.

But we could verify our identities: We had passports and driver’s licenses. And Delta let us board our flight to London without presenting the credit card.

"If you bought it from Expedia however, it's Expedia that makes the payment to Delta and thus you're exempt from having to show the physical card."



if you are flying with delta buy through expedia?

i guess i will fly with United and AA if i will do connecting flights through the U.S to the Caribbean and Latin America