boarding pass
noun
US
: a special piece of paper that one must have in order to be allowed to get onto an airplane
Please present your boarding pass to the flight attendant.
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Dali first bypassed an airport employee in charge of a crewmember checkpoint and skipped stations where her ID and boarding pass would have been checked, a spokesperson for the Transportation Security Administration told CNN.
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Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2025
The detachable matching pouch provides easy access to your ID and boarding pass.
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Frequent travelers may have experienced the frustration of having an outdated gate or departure time displayed on a travel document or boarding pass, whether paper or stored on their phone.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2025
The woman responded by sending Way screen shots of an apparently new airline boarding pass.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
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Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2025
The detachable matching pouch provides easy access to your ID and boarding pass.
—Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Frequent travelers may have experienced the frustration of having an outdated gate or departure time displayed on a travel document or boarding pass, whether paper or stored on their phone.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2025
The woman responded by sending Way screen shots of an apparently new airline boarding pass.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Boarding pass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boarding%20pass. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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