Originally Posted by
g289t
Is that how it works with Emirates? Years ago I was dealing with this on Northwest Airlines. The ticket had to be issued by midnight. I spoke to a ticketing agent, and she said the deadline goes by the time at the departure city, regardless of the location of ticketing. So it doesn't make any difference (to the old Northwest Airlines anyway) where you are, or your VPN locale, or the ticketing agent's location. Is the deadline reached at the departure city? If so, it's over.
Whether an agent was stating something correctly for NW would not be something that I would assume. Even if that is how NW had policies for, that wouldn't impact a travel agent. The AP requirements do not go down to minutes, but simply on days. If it is a one day Advance Purchase, then the ticket can be purchased anytime up until 23:59 on the previous day. A 14:00 departure with a 1 day AP requirement , does not need to be purchased before 14:00 but any time that day. It just happens that there are about 48 hours in a day ( starting from furthest east to furthest west )