go ahead and report it to a mod so they can break it off into a new thread, if it is such a problem for you. Or point me to an existing thread and I'll add the question to that.
But in terms of why I put it here, the participants on this thread seemed to be informed on the 24 hr hold and I thought they could opine on how the 24 hr hold works with intl fares with 3 day holds listed in the tariff.