Was just wondering................
 

You are most likly right...as long as there is a BA "safe"....I think my first question has been answered and beloved wife will feel at ease now. (And I can move on to next step!) :)

As to my second question about FedEx , there just might be a time when using Fedex might be needed so comments mightn be of interest.

Hey, No Window Seat................
 

Just reread "when doing our tickting,etc,etc"........This is my first attempt at this "game".......how did you ticket your ticket????? I am trying to keep away from the phone if at all possible but I was going to call BANA on Tuesday and try and book my DONE4 exIST. (I am big time hard of hearing so any way I can get around the draeded phone I do :D )

Would it work contacting IST direct by EMail? Do you have an EMail address...for anyone?

Any help would be appreciated..................Thanks......

There used to be a fairly rigid rule that said OWE tickets (and many others with regional pricing) could only be Sold In and Ticketed In the country where they were priced, i.e. SITI. So an airline office would expect that you would appear in person to pay for and pick up your tickets. We would skulk around, more or less, using travel agents to front for us in such transactions.

These days things are a lot looser. Someone actually reportedly (I think it worked out) bought tickets at the WAW rate, but paid for them and picked them up in London, but I think that was a fluke. But some airlines at least are willing to sell you tickets against a c/c you fax them, and hold them for pickup, but afaik they generally still aren't in the business of Fedexing them. Their farflung offices probably don't have FedEx accounts, since their most important papers just go back and forth to home port on their own fleet.

If that's the stumbling block, I suppose it's not too painful for you to establish a FedEx account. Then you can print a shipper against your account, and send it to IST, assuming they go with the idea. I've never had a FedEx account, but getting a UPS account was trivial.

TA's on the other hand are used to shipping tix and can deal with it easily. And FedEx is VERY unlikely to lose your important documents - getting them safely from a to b is what they do for a living, and I don't doubt that a lot of envelopes that travel internationally are high value. And when it happens, if you don't do it often enough that it's boring, it's fun tracking your package up through Europe and on to your pocket.

Here's the approach I'd take.

First, develop an itinerary that you think will work, and post it here. What I and others have concluded about the IST office is that they are very nice people but a bit overwhelmed with RTW ticketing requests, so getting the itinerary vetted here would help them avoid having to make rule interpretations, etc.

Once you are comfortable with the itinerary, fax it to them at +90 212 317 6606 (fax number as posted on BA website.) Give them your email address with the fax and mention that you'd prefer email as the main channel for communications. They will be happy to accommodate you.

Once the itin has been approved and the rate desk has done that voodoo that they do, they will email you with a PNR and instructions on how to pay. I used my US-issued credit card with no problems; in fact the charge posted the day after I sent it. I scanned in both the front and back of the cc, and my passport photo page, and sent them as attachments to an email; I was assured that they would not release the information past their (secure) server in IST.

I am picking up the paper tix next month at their office as others have done; they will be happy to send the tickets to the airport counter the day of your departure from IST, but I wanted to meet and thank them personally.

I will PM you with the office's general email. As I and others have said, I recommend using a friendly approach with the IST office; it will be returned in kind, and we truly don't want to alientate these nice people with incomplete requests or inundate their small office with all thiis weirdness.

Regarding FedEx or other forwarding, I believe it was Gaza that had success with this approach with Tal Aviation in Warsaw before Poland prices tanked. I don't know if BA/IST would consider it, but asking is free.

Especially if you're uncomfortable using the phone, I would suggest cutting out the BA N. America RTW desk as it seems a 50-50 chance that they will be much help.

I am in the process of ticketing from them. When I suggested CTO or airport pickup, they said I should come to the CTO.

I used the same process as described by Gardyloo. I emailed them an itinerary last Tuesday morning, and they sent me the booking with fare and taxes on Friday afternoon. (Between Tuesday and Friday there was no email from them acknowledging that they had received my request and were processing it. Their emails also dont come with any Agent's name- only "Telesales IST"). They gave me six days to ticket it. I sent them the CC and passport scan yesterday, and asked them to ticket it today. I will pick it up from their CTO on March 29 when I am in transit between Istanbul and Bishkek.

DEL on e-ticket?
 

BA IST informed me that they have issued an eticket today for this DONE3. I'm a little concerned since the itin includes DEL. My experience at Delhi has been that the guard asks to see a paper ticket before letting you in to the terminal.

Has anyone here used an eticket for an international flight out of DEL?

Without having personal experience about this particular procedure, I would say that there will be no problem to get in to the terminal with an e-ticket. Hope you do not worry if a meteorite falls on the roof while you're in the lounge? ;)

Enjoy your trip!

I had more problems with FedEx collecting and delivering the ticket than I had getting Tal to issue it. :mad:

I set-up a FedEx account and attempted to arrange a collection from Poland. I thought that it would be straightforward but I was sadly mistaken. A week after my first request and many fruitless phone calls and faxes to customer services (which I think are outsourced to India) they eventually managed to arrange the collection.

I've complained and had my transaction refund (approx GBP54).

Thanks to all once again
 

Thanks for all the feed back.......

I sent a EMail outlining what I need/want......I asked them best way to get this done for both of us.

My itinerary is all set (Oked) so as soon as I hear back I will follow whatever directions they give and "run with it".

If this works and from all that has been said it should. It really will make me feel good. At the very, very best of times using the phone on my part can be a "joke". Lhr could come out LAX, AKL takes me to ANC, etc.,etc :confused:

So I will report my ups and downs .

TomT