Originally Posted by Wanderlust888

Thank you
On iberia.com I clicked ‘pay’, they detected a "possible improper use of my payment card"*, and gave me the options of "cancel booking" , "retry payment", or "visit our offices" (!).

I guess at that point they held the ticket for me to decide what to do, and as I didn't click on "cancel booking", they didn't release it immediately.

(Of course, my payment card worked perfectly on ba.com - it hadn't been the credit card company blocking it but iberia.com being over-cautious perhaps because of my IP address being abroad)