Expedia tickets invalid for 10 ppl tomorrow to Africa
Jul 25, 2019, 1:58 pm
#17
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I'm confused. Was there a schedule change? If not, why did the tickets need to be reissued? It sounds like DL just generated a new ticket number but nothing else changed and you didn't even lose seat assignments in the process. Did Expedia issue the tickets originally but later decided (for no valid reason) that MCT was violated and then fail to try to "fix" the (non)issue by changing the itinerary and tickets?
There was a very slight change of 10min, but it made the tight connection shorter.
Jul 25, 2019, 2:07 pm
#18
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people keep saying this but i've booked on travelocity before and you can save A LOT of money when you bundle air/hotel. for example i needed to fly to london last year and a regular J ticket was about $4k on delta. if i booked it as a travelocity travel package with a one night hotel stay (which i did not use) it was only $2400 for the same exact DL ticket. we're not talking about saving a few dollars here..
Jul 25, 2019, 2:17 pm
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people keep saying this but i've booked on travelocity before and you can save A LOT of money when you bundle air/hotel. for example i needed to fly to london last year and a regular J ticket was about $4k on delta. if i booked it as a travelocity travel package with a one night hotel stay (which i did not use) it was only $2400 for the same exact DL ticket. we're not talking about saving a few dollars here..
Jul 25, 2019, 2:18 pm
#20
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In that case what you have is a BULK ticket. Those are only sold by TA. If theres an issue (other than DoD IRROPS) it must be handled by TA. They cant be taken over by airline, as they did for OP. You'll also be limited to rebooking (again other than DoD IRROPS) to what the TA offers.
Jul 25, 2019, 2:25 pm
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Regardless Expedia should've never been asking for more money. This was it sounds a routine schedule change. Not sure how they messed it up.
Jul 25, 2019, 2:41 pm
#22
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In that case what you have is a BULK ticket. Those are only sold by TA. If theres an issue (other than DoD IRROPS) it must be handled by TA. They cant be taken over by airline, as they did for OP. You'll also be limited to rebooking (again other than DoD IRROPS) to what the TA offers.
Jul 25, 2019, 2:43 pm
#23
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Understand you're on same flights, but were they booked using the same two letter airline code? Or did they swap out codesjare flight numbers?
Regardless Expedia should've never been asking for more money. This was it sounds a routine schedule change. Not sure how they messed it up.
Regardless Expedia should've never been asking for more money. This was it sounds a routine schedule change. Not sure how they messed it up.
Jul 26, 2019, 12:50 am
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Next time also consider Delta Vacations. Even though they're a third party TA (MLT, I think?), their systems integrations with Delta is seemingly better, and they'll match another OTA's price.