How Not Knowing The Numbers & Letters On Boarding Pass Can Make You A Rookie?

If You Are Reading This Article, Then You May Have Ever Travelled with An Airliner and That Must Be Definitely Enjoying. You Are All Dressed Up, Enjoying the Hustle and Bustle of The Airport While the Humming of The Aircraft Engines Are Running in The Background. Suddenly, You Realise That You Have to Get Your Boarding Pass. You Go onto A Machine Nearby Enter Your Details and PNR Number and The Machine Starts Printing A Series of Details, Numbers, and Alpha-Numeric.

You Get That Boarding Pass and Go onto Enjoying Your Flight. But Have You Ever Wondered What Are Those Numbers & Alphabets in It. Have You? If Yes, Then We Will Be Saying You. In This Article We Would Not Be Discussing the Obvious Things Like Passenger Name etc. Instead, We Would Be Getting More Technical in This Article.

The Red-Marked Alphabet Is Your Unique Identity as A Passenger. It Is Said as The PNR Number or PRN Number or Even A Reservation Code. The Six Digit Letter Can Be Very Important as This Is the Number You Will Give to Your Airliner for Any Changes. This Number When Input by The Airliner Gives Out Your Personal Information.

If You Have Ever Done Air Travel Earlier You Know That Before You Start Boarding The Air bay Or The Bus You Have To Stand In A Never-Ending Queue Where A Pretty Lady With A Bunch Of Computers & Bar Code Scanners With A Lot Of Programming In The Monitor Which You Can’t Understand? If You Observe the Lady Carefully, She Takes Your Boarding Pass and Scans Your Barcode. The Barcode Is Nothing but The Digital Version of Your Boarding Pass.

 This One Single Letter Describes Your Ticket & Class. The Single Letter Describes the Class You Are Travelling Whether It’s Economy, Business or First Class. In Typical Aviation Language F-Stands for First Class, C or J Stands for Business Class & Y or Q Stands for Economy Class. Although, It May Vary from Airline to Airline Depending on Their Preference. For Example; In the Above Ticket B Denotes for Economy Class.

STPC Stands for Stopover Paid by Carrier. If You Get This Voucher, Then You Are Very Lucky. These Tickets Are Very Rare but May Happen When Your Connecting Flight Is Very Far Away in The Future. In This Case, You Get A Hotel Room Which Is Paid by The Carrier.

You Never Want to Get This Type of Ticket. SSSS Stands for Secondary Security Screen Selection. These Types of Tickets Are Also Very Rare but Can Be Issued When the Airline or The Country Thinks You as A Big Threat. At Times, When You Buy an Expensive Ticket with Only Cash This Type of Ticket May Be Issued. But, Apart from All This at Times of War, Civil War Also You May be Considered as A Threat.