Originally Posted by christep
Ticketing and reservations are independent. More often than not I have the reservations for the first segments of a OWE long before I even talk to someone about ticketing it. The airlines are getting pickier about having ticket numbers against reservations, but it is normally still possible to persuade them to hold the reservations until you are ready to ticket.
Sorry for being so dense, but now I am more confused. Ok, thanks to you I now understand ticketing <> reservations, but why are the airlines insisting on having a ticket number against reservations, if the rules (the way I interpret them) say you can actually wait until only a few hours (DONEx/AONEx) before departure for the ticket to be actually issued?
How then, do the many who arrange for their tickets to be issued in CAI and other places away from home, manage to have this done at the last hour AND have confirmed reservations at the same time?
