Originally Posted by JohnAx
On the other side of 'look closely', one time when BA reissued for me the agent mistakenly used the original ticket sale date + one year for the "'valid until' date. As that date was well before the last scheduled flights I was ready to be challenged and have to argue the rules - on my particular coupons, that date was printed in bold 72-point font, raised red letters, and somehow seemed to be illuminated by a little spotlight - but no one mentioned it. (A plus for having reservations in the computer, I suppose.)
I've just noticed that my handwritten DONE5 tickets (all segments dated) were all printed with "not valid before" and "not valid after" with the date of each segment (for example not valid before 8/22 not valid after 8/22 for a segment dated on 8/22).
So far I haven't had any trouble flying on dates other than those printed, but was this an error of the ticketing agent?