Originally Posted by umguy
Just a quick question about RTW reissues. My ticket was originally purchased towards the end of the year last year. When I had it reissued once they didn't change the stamp to show that it had to be used by the date I purchased it on last year. So now it has an april expiration date. Did I get a way with a few extra months to use my ticket?
If it's an OWE the expiration is one year after first flight, not purchase date. If you began using it in April, the agent did the right thing. If on the other hand it now shows an expiry more than a year after first flight, it may seem as if you have an extension, which you could use at some risk. Cowardly me would not.
(I had the opposite error - a BA agent reissued showing purchase date as expiry. When I pointed out her error, she, not wanting to do the tickets again, put it off as nothing. And true enough, when it came time to fly the segments beyond that incorrect date (for which I had been holding confirmed reservations, but changed them as the event approached) there was no problem.)