<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Lux:
Excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference between paying for a ticket through the BA desk at Cairo and collecting a week later, and booking through ebookers and collecting from their office in London a week later?</font>
In most cases I would say "intent". I am not aware of any rules that are being broken by BA in CAI issuing tickets in advance.
TAs and ticketing desks issue tickets for people who are not physically there all the time. I've had dozens done like that in HK where there has been an advance ticketing requirement and I have been on a previous trip.
The problem is that if the ONE ticket is shipped to London then the intent is normally simply to throw away the first coupon. This breaks the rules fo the ticket, which is what BA wishes to avoid.
Maybe I am too honest about all this, but in my view it is OK to push the rules to the limit (doing fast turnrounds in CAI just to get a cheap ticket), but not OK to deliberately break the rules of the ticket you have bought (i.e. the contract you have entered into with BA/OW).
But maybe others think I am just being naive.
[This message has been edited by christep (edited 09-10-2003).]