Well I've been flying twenty plus times a year for a good few years, and I don't recall ever having either check in staff or cabin crew address me by name - this includes Premium and business class and to/from locations all over the world. Maybe it's because I'm too cheap to fly First .

As far as emergencies go, my security buddy would be expecting me to check in regularly and would soon be in touch if they didn't hear from me. Plus on the occasions I did travel away with a punter (I no longer do longer bookings) they had a contact number for home to ring if anything happened, which was one of my work phones that Mr Amy would hang on to. If anything truly appalling happened I would expect the punter (or more likely the police) to go through my stuff and find my passport/emergency details - I think priorities change a bit in situations like that .

I've never been anywhere that expects people to go through immigration/passport control in pairs, either. That doesn't mean they don't, but it's not a requirement for whole travel parties to pop up at the kiosk together and in my experience when they do it normally just means the staff look even more pissed off than usual .

I've never been anywhere that expects people to go through immigration/passport control in pairs, either. That doesn't mean they don't, but it's not a requirement for whole travel parties to pop up at the kiosk together and in my experience when they do it normally just means the staff look even more pissed off than usual .

I've definitely been stopped while going through immigration as a couple but maybe that's because we were travelling as a family?