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Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 1/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-20] Hidden City Fares Next Document: [1-22] Discount Airlines See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Many people, when they can't use their nonrefundable ticket (or the return leg of a round trip ticket), try to sell their tickets through classified advertisements. This can be a source of cheap air tickets. However, you'll be traveling under someone else's name, and the airlines frown on this practice. If they catch you doing this, you'll be forced to pay full fare for the return flight (typically twice the face value of the round-trip ticket), and the airline will cancel all your frequent traveler miles and all the frequent flyer miles of the person who originally bought the ticket. They may also terminate your membership in their frequent flyer program. Their contract is with the person named on the ticket, not with you. If the tickets are actually stolen tickets, they will definitely catch you. Many airlines offer a bounty to employees who confiscate such tickets. Most airlines only check IDs on full flights or on fares that require a special ID, such as a student ID. But more are checking IDs on randomly selected tickets in an effort to discourage this practice. All carriers reserve the right to require identification and to refuse transportation if identification cannot be provided. For example Northwest prints the following warning on the inside flap of the ticket jacket: "Photo identification is required for all passengers. Boarding may be denied and ticket confiscated if passenger's identification does not match the name on the ticket." If the person named on the ticket checks in for you at the baggage check-in counter, you'll probably run into trouble on the return trip. If the airline catches you, you'll have to pay for a full fare one-way ticket, which will negate any savings (and probably cost you more than a round-trip would have). Plus, many airlines now check IDs on boarding at the gate, to discourage this practice. If the airplane should crash and you die, the airline won't have your real name (which can affect life insurance policies), and this is just plain unethical. Moreover, your legal rights are extended only to the person named on the ticket (or their estate), so in the event of a loss or claim against the carrier, you will have no legal recourse whatsoever. But given that the airline pricing strategies try to game the consumer market, some consumers feel they are entitled to game the system right back. I NEITHER ADVISE NOR CONDONE USING THIS PRACTICE AS A MEANS OF OBTAINING CHEAP AIR TRAVEL. This practice constitutes fraud, and hence is illegal. One thing, however, cannot be stressed enough: Never purchase such a ticket for international travel. If the name on your ticket does not match the name on your passport, you can get into a lot of trouble, not just with the airline, but with Immigration, Customs, and the police at your destination. The airlines are required to check your travel documents before you are allowed to board the aircraft, so they will compare the name on your ticket with the name on your passport. Many countries require airlines to return passengers to their country of origin (at airline expense) if the passenger is denied entrance into the country. So airlines have some incentive to be careful. If, by some fluke, they don't catch you, Immigration and Customs will also inspect your travel documents. They also tend to compare the name on the passport with the name on the bags. When they catch you, the consequences can be a lot more serious than having to pay for a full-fare ticket. Since traveling under false documents is often a crime under the laws of the destination country, you will be subject to the courts and punishments of the destination country, and there will be little your embassy can do to help you. User Contributions: 1 cheap viagra Feb 25, 2021 @ 2:14 pm https://genericviagragog.com buy viagra without doctor prescription Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 1/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-20] Hidden City Fares Next Document: [1-22] Discount Airlines Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: mkant@cs.cmu.edu
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