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Passengers person been issued a boarding walk informing implicit an easy-to-overlook 'SEQ' code.
We often find ourselves double/triple-checking if we've got our important travel papers without really looking astatine what's connected it.
Apart from the time, gross fig and spot number, I couldn't archer you what other is connected my boarding pass.
The dreaded 'SSSS' code, for instance, has been dubbed the 'kiss of death' for adding an other furniture of information accent to your journey.
SSSS stands for 'Secondary Security Screening Selection' and is simply a information protocol implemented by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
The TSA enactment this codification connected the boarding passes of radical who request to beryllium inspected further by information personnel.
Passengers who publication past infinitesimal tickets, instrumentality predominant trips to destinations deemed 'high-risk' by the US, oregon who are connected watchlists, could get it.
However, the 'SEQ' codification poses a antithetic benignant of problem.
Your series codification could perchance mean atrocious quality for your formation (Reddit)
What does the 'SEQ' codification mean connected your boarding pass?
The SEQ stands for 'Sequence Number' and informs airlines erstwhile you checked successful for your flight.
"A SEQ of 001 means you were the archetypal to cheque in; 152 means you were the 152nd," explains Hadleigh Diamond, an airdrome chauffeur astatine SCS Chauffeurs.
"While it doesn’t impact your spot duty oregon boarding group, it’s important during overbooked flights, particularly connected fund airlines.
"When we put transfers, we often punctual passengers to guarantee they’ve checked successful early, whenever possible, to debar a imaginable formation issue."
Passengers are being told to treble cheque their boarding passes for a 'SEQ' codification (Getty Stock Images)
So if your level is perchance overbooked, you're apt to get that codification connected your boarding pass, which works arsenic a first-come first-serve benignant of thing.
"Airlines thin to overbook flights arsenic not each passengers crook up connected the day," Hadleigh said.
"When a formation is truthful overbooked that passengers are denied boarding oregon offloaded, the hose volition usually inquire for volunteers.
"But if no-one comes forward, each hose volition contradict boarding to passengers successful enactment with its ain policies."
Passenger experiences issues that originate with 'SEQ' code
It's beauteous unlucky (Getty Stock Images)
Taking to Reddit a period ago, 1 idiosyncratic said they noticed the codification connected their ticket.
"I checked successful 8 hours earlier my flight, astatine the nonstop aforesaid arsenic my spouse and our series numbers are 137 and 138 but helium got a spot and my walk says 'seat assigned astatine gate'," they explained.
"My archetypal thought was that the formation is overbooked but my series numbers is inactive comparatively debased and I person a checked-in 20kg container purchased and a precedence truthful I don’t get however they are gonna check-in my luggage and past nonstop maine location astatine the gate?"
In an update, the Redditor said they managed to update their summons via the app and 'decided to play it safe'.
