Originally Posted by
Orion
Something similar happened to me. A few years ago I had a paper ticket on DL and unfortunately stowed it in my back pocket where it likely flipped out in a parking lot when I got in or out of the car. I arrived at the airport and could not find the ticket. Delta allowed me to purchase a duplicate ticket and gave me a form to fill out to apply for compensation.
Happened to me too. It was a bump voucher, that fell out of an open top folder (we called them slash folders) and onto the ground out in the parking lot. I walked out to the parking lot and back twice trying unsuccessfully to find it. I was really really lucky that day when I found out that some nice person turned it in to lost and found (or rather to the respective airline's counter).
Otherwise I'd been out of luck.
Originally Posted by
Orion
This paper ticket faux pax happened to me twice that year. In each case Delta responded in writing that someone else had used my paper tickets and no compensation was due. .
Not a good idea, any more, to put something like a checkbook or an envelope in your back pocket and hanging out halfway. Fool me twice, shame on me.
For the OP, who did not lose his voucher, the airline should eventually (with reasonable dispatch) make good on it.
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