Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
In this situation, the EK booking engine will not have a free format entry for card holder name in the credit card payment section but will be a drop down list from which a passenger's name is selected
If you try to use your card number but her name, I would expect card validation processes to fail , plus, even if it does go through , would risk being denied travel given that the card details provided would not match the actual card details if they ask to see it
I would suggest booking through another site that will allow a 3rd party credit card or see if the office travel agent can make the personal booking
The EK site allows skywards gold card holders to make and pay for bookings online for others. Simply log in on the EK site and follow the normal booking process but do not tick the check box which asks to use skywards details for passenger details. When it comes to the payment page the drop down menu will have the gold card holders name as one of the options.
The interesting part would be when it comes to one of those destinations where the payment card is requested at check in. I would assume that the booking engine would flag that destination up at the point of payment.