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Old Jul 3, 2016 | 8:58 pm
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Originally Posted by vkykam
If a credit card number was given for a same-day ticket, AC wouldn't have the money at the time of the check-in, nor would giving the CC number have been considered "having the money". They would merely have an IOU issued by the purchaser at that point. Should AC/NH that that risk?
Yes, AC should be willing to accept that risk as the third party booked on ac.com so they should be reasonably confident in the authorization that was presumably obtained by their software when the file was created and ticket purchased.
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