re: #237 ryannon

I couldn’t get on an Air France flight out of Paris to San Francisco with my U.S. passport - which had expired exactly two weeks earlier. I hadn’t noticed the expiration until I was told that I couldn’t board. No discussion about it. I was also told that the airline would be fined for allowing me to travel on an expired passport.

The Dutch are not total idiots: I simply can’t imagine them letting anyone on a flight to the U.S. without a passport.

Like I said, it sounded weird to me, to. Could just be chaff churned out by the media. In fact, I hope that’s true.

There was also a story about someone who intervened on the bomber’s behalf in Amsterdam, who didn’t board the flight but went with the bomber to a supervisor’s office to “clear something up.” I’m also taking this story with a grain of salt for the moment, but it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that there’s more to what took place.