Originally Posted by
DaveNCL
I understand if you don’t want to share further details but as you described this person as a colleague, it sounds like this could be a work trip? If so, why not just purchase new tickets or have your employer deal with it.
edit, beat to it by
BLHD
We are a small company and I am the Boss. We took this trip together every year to USA for an exhibition. Ticket was booked 10 Months ago.
As it happened, his wife managed to get a photo of the Death Certificate to me last Monday. This was the minimum BA would accept. However as of today Thursday, they still have not changed the name on the Ticket, but they promised to do it. We fly out on Saturday.
PS I would point that I intend being incredible helpful financially (way beyond what is required) to his wife. I have known them both for 30 years, I only point this out as some posters here implied that I was being in some ways mean