Originally Posted by
jenwazhere
I’ve booked and paid for return flights London to Hong Kong in November through a travel agency. They gave me the booking reference but no E-Ticket which I think is odd.
So I contacted Cathay Pacific directly and they checked that the booking hasn’t been paid for. Then I called the travel agency and they told me that I would receive it a month before the departure date. But I’m left with a booking that hasn’t been fully confirmed so I’m quite worried.
I have already spoke to my bank about it but they advised me to wait until Oct/Nov whether or not they would issue the E-Ticket.
My question is, does it normally take this long to get an E-Ticket?
Read
OMAAT, especially the comment section, the reply from Pointstalent.
It looks like Chinese brokers have plundered the airline's premium class ticket stock and are selling for profit (==== high price). The airlines still show availability, but the "seat" is already claimed, but not yet paid for, so still in offered inventory on a first-come, first-serve basis (IE who pays first gets the ticket).
And to me, it looks like your TA is gambling on a lower ticket price, one month out (buy a new ticket, and cancel the current booking). And, of course, when the price doesn't go down, they just say "sorry" and leave you without a flight. These gamblers tend to be working along the principle "all the profit for me, the losses are for the customer". Hey, don't we see that at the stock market with their brokers ????
When you "agreed" on the purchase of a ticket, you just can tell the TA: "Ticket or cancel, both NOW".