Never take pictures or throw away your boarding pass! Hardly you know...

Today it is not enough to check in at the airport so that everyone knows how cool you are and is about to fly to Paris, and there is already Provence.





As the old Russian proverb says: “If you didn’t publish a photo, it didn’t happen.” Visual proof must be posted on social media.





Familiar picture? There are many such people, and they will be among your friends. Today we will tell you why you can not happily upload to social networks, such as Instagram and Facebook, photos of your boarding pass.

The fact is that the boarding pass, in addition to the seemingly harmless name and surname, as well as the direction of departure, contains other information that, at first glance, no one except the employees of the airline and the airport, does not need.





What is this data? First, it is the airline’s bonus card number. Do you have a card number and last name? This in some airlines is enough to access your personal account on the site or at least to check in for a flight over the Internet.

PNR (Passenger Name Record) is always present. bookingIt is a unique identifier in the database associated with all the details of your route, and often not only yours, but also those who fly with you.





Keep in mind: even if the coveted combination of symbols is not explicitly contained on the boarding pass, it can usually be easily extracted from the barcode, which is necessarily available on each boarding pass.

There are no uniform PNR standards, each booking system has its own set of fields, but the main ones, of course, coincide – these are the names of passengers, contacts of the person who issued the ticket, the ticket number and data about at least one flight segment (from where and where, flight number, date and time).





Also, the PNR contains fare parameters, information about payment and payment method (up to the credit card number), and in some cases even the passenger’s phone number and address in the host country. It can also contain date of birth, passport data – in general, there is plenty of information. What can she give a crook?

The easiest way is to know when you are leaving and when you are returning. If you and your family go on vacation for two weeks, then you will definitely not be home.

This is very useful information for a burglar or car thief who gets additional confidence that you can brazenly drive a tow truck directly to your yard.





Attackers can steal information about your loyalty and miles, as well as information about not only the flight, but also about all flights you booked for the future. With access, you can spend all your miles on tickets.

No, not for yourself: it is more reasonable to sell them to gullible provincials from the group in VK "The lowest prices for air tickets". It will be very difficult to prove that it was not you, and for trading miles, any decent airline will completely block your bonus account.

Fraudsters will be able to access information about who you are flying with or who you paid for a ticket with, which in some cases can jeopardize personal relationships.

Also having access to boarding passAt a minimum, you can change the seat in the cabin without your participation and cancel all flights booked by you or change their dates (at certain rates).





Make sure your boarding pass is with you until the end of the trip. Then tear it into small, small pieces and throw it away in the resort country where no one knows anything about you.

You can love your friends and share anything with them, but always remember – do not trust social networks, publishing personal information in them, including your boarding pass. Be careful and have a great rest!