Originally Posted by
Flying Bat
This sounds familiar. I was given some story by ICC about two month ago about not booking MNL ticket, it sounded like nonsense to me but your post suggests it may be true.
I am told that an airline can only issue Manila if it has offices there. No BMI offices = no ticketing. A friend recently ran into a similar issue with a different airline and this was what both the travel agent and the airline told him.