Nearly stranded: Couple denied flight home because they didn't have correct credit card

Have you ever booked a flight with a credit card, but then left that card at home?

That mistake only needs to happen once, to learn why you want to bring that card along if you are traveling to certain destinations.

Herb Weisbaum, a consumer expert and contributing editor at Checkbook.org, learned this lesson the hard way.

The former Today Show correspondent was stumped returning home from a trip with his wife to England when they were denied boarding their return flight home.

"Went to the kiosk where you get your boarding pass, and it said the only way we could identify ourselves and start the process was with the credit card we had purchased the ticket with," Weisbaum said.

Watch how you could be denied boarding a return flight if you don't have the correct credit card with you:

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