hi all,

I want to purchase an airline ticket for a friend, using my Credit
Card.

Can I pay for it - and put the ticket in Her name?

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:40:36 -0700 (PDT), marco polo
markphd21@gmail.com> wrote:

hi all,

I want to purchase an airline ticket for a friend, using my Credit
Card.

Can I pay for it - and put the ticket in Her name?

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the
tickets. Because of this, when, several years ago I bought
tickets to visit us for relatives in Finland, I had to get the
hard tickets and mail them to Finland.

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:19:13 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen@cox.net
wrote:

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:40:36 -0700 (PDT), marco polo
markphd21@gmail.com> wrote:

hi all,

I want to purchase an airline ticket for a friend, using my Credit
Card.

Can I pay for it - and put the ticket in Her name?

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the
tickets. Because of this, when, several years ago I bought
tickets to visit us for relatives in Finland, I had to get the
hard tickets and mail them to Finland.

I forgot to mention this applies to E-tickets. If you've got hard
tickets no problem.

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The advice to check with the airline is good.

However, I doubt very much that you will get "hard" tickets (made of
paper!). The industry has moved to e-tickets and they are well aware
that people do buy tickets for one another and procedures are in place
that allow you to pay with your card and your friend to travel without
having to show your card. The likelihood is that another form of
identification (probably the passport of your friend) will be used instead.

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:40:36 -0700 (PDT), marco polo
markphd21@gmail.com> wrote:

hi all,

I want to purchase an airline ticket for a friend, using my Credit
Card.

Can I pay for it - and put the ticket in Her name?

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the
tickets.

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the
tickets.

This is no longer the case, at least not on any airline I've flown in
the past five years. You can pick up your E-ticket by putting your
reservation number into the kiosk or a credit card with the same name as
on the ticket.

In article <X7u%l.946$Wj7.879@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the
tickets.

This is no longer the case, at least not on any airline I've flown in
the past five years. You can pick up your E-ticket by putting your
reservation number into the kiosk or a credit card with the same name as
on the ticket.

My experience also (on United, and I think others). If you have the
card, inserting it gives you quick and automated login; otherwise you
have to use the touch screen to key in the reservation ID code that was
emailed to you.

"Hatunen" <hatunen@cox.net> wrote in message
news:be9r35lbafsghnp4pp3kd3alomr65egud1@4ax.com...
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:19:13 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen@cox.net
wrote:

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:40:36 -0700 (PDT), marco polo
markphd21@gmail.com> wrote:

hi all,

I want to purchase an airline ticket for a friend, using my Credit
Card.

Can I pay for it - and put the ticket in Her name?

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the
tickets. Because of this, when, several years ago I bought
tickets to visit us for relatives in Finland, I had to get the
hard tickets and mail them to Finland.

I forgot to mention this applies to E-tickets. If you've got hard
tickets no problem.

The advice to check with the airline is good.

However, I doubt very much that you will get "hard" tickets (made of
paper!). The industry has moved to e-tickets and they are well aware that
people do buy tickets for one another and procedures are in place that allow
you to pay with your card and your friend to travel without having to show
your card. The likelihood is that another form of identification (probably
the passport of your friend) will be used instead.

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the tickets.

This is no longer the case, at least not on any airline I've flown in
the past five years.

BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.

Not true.

It is their preferred method but I've bought ET for other
passengers on BA and they have travelled quite successfully despite not
having a copy of my card.

In article <X7u%l.946$Wj7.879@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the tickets.

This is no longer the case, at least not on any airline I've flown in
the past five years.

BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.

In article <SP-dnU-BKI9gh6LXnZ2dnUVZ8oGdnZ2d@bt.com>,
Graham Harrison <edward.harrison1@remove.btinternet.com> wrote:

BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.

Not true.

Cut-and-pasted from the confirmation email for a BA e-ticket I bought
for someone else (dated Nov 25, 2008):

``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay for this booking
to the airport with you, for verification, before you can travel.''

It is their preferred method but I've bought ET for other
passengers on BA and they have travelled quite successfully despite not
having a copy of my card.

In my experience, enforcement is sporadic. I've never seen this
enforced anywhere except London (doesn't mean this can't happen), but
at LGW, I was asked to show the card I used for payment as recently
as 2007.

Cut-and-pasted from the confirmation email for a BA e-ticket I bought
for someone else (dated Nov 25, 2008):
``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay for this booking
to the airport with you, for verification, before you can travel.''

Don't care what it says.

Badly worded.

However, they are well aware that
passengers buy tickets for one another and they know which card has been
used for payment *and* who the cardholder is so that they do *not* ask for
the card from someone who is not the cardholder.

I've purchased
tickets for other people from New York to Milan and Stockholm to Geneva to
name but two and they've never come anywhere near the UK, much less London.

It's a non issue. It's totally doable.

Don't care what it says. Badly worded. The IATA standards allow for
various forms of identification to be presented. There are, without doubt,
fraud issues associated with credit cards that mean that, when possible, all
airlines like to see the card.

Which part of ``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay
for this booking to the airport with you, for verification, before
you can travel'' do you find unclear?

The bit that is missing that refers to what you have to do when payment was
made by some other method

BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.

How do they handle PTA's?

In article <Pd2dnVM_msa0d6LXnZ2dnUVZ8hWdnZ2d@bt.com>,
Graham Harrison <edward.harrison1@remove.btinternet.com> wrote:

Cut-and-pasted from the confirmation email for a BA e-ticket I bought
for someone else (dated Nov 25, 2008):
``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay for this booking
to the airport with you, for verification, before you can travel.''

Don't care what it says.

You don't. But BA does, sporadically. For example, I was asked to show
the credit card used to pay for the ticket when checking in at Gatwick.

Badly worded.

Which part of ``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay
for this booking to the airport with you, for verification, before
you can travel'' do you find unclear?

However, they are well aware that
passengers buy tickets for one another and they know which card has been
used for payment *and* who the cardholder is so that they do *not* ask for
the card from someone who is not the cardholder.

Of course. That's why they recommend that the cardholder bring the
card to the airport (or, according to BA's phone representative,
city ticket office) for verification at any time before travel.

I've purchased
tickets for other people from New York to Milan and Stockholm to Geneva to
name but two and they've never come anywhere near the UK, much less
London.

Indeed, I have never seen this enforced anywhere except London.
But in London, I was asked for the card and saw this happen to
other people.

It's a non issue. It's totally doable.

Yes, it's doable, as long as you bring the card used to pay for the
booking to the airport with you, for verification, before you travel.

Enforcement is sporadic, so you may very well get away without card
verification. But then again you may not, especially if checking in
in London. The fact of the matter that BA's e-ticket receipt
clearly says:

``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay for this booking
to the airport with you, for verification, before you can travel.''

In article <X7u%l.946$Wj7.879@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the tickets.

This is no longer the case, at least not on any airline I've flown in
the past five years.

BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.

"VS" <shmat@xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote in message
news:h1n2p3$58h$1@xenon.Stanford.EDU...
In article <X7u%l.946$Wj7.879@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the tickets.

This is no longer the case, at least not on any airline I've flown in
the past five years.

BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.

How do they handle PTA's?