Validity of Ticket
Sep 13, 2006 | 8:17 pm
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Validity of Ticket
Hi,
I have a paper ticket for upcoming travel. Under the not valid before space it says nothing. Under the not valid after space it says Sept 18th, which is one year after the date of the outbound flight. The ticket has a maximum stay of 1 year (12 months.) If I were to change my outbound flight to a flight before September 18th 2006 (say, September 15th 2006) would I still be able to return on September 18th 2007, effectively making the stay more than one year?
Thanks!
I have a paper ticket for upcoming travel. Under the not valid before space it says nothing. Under the not valid after space it says Sept 18th, which is one year after the date of the outbound flight. The ticket has a maximum stay of 1 year (12 months.) If I were to change my outbound flight to a flight before September 18th 2006 (say, September 15th 2006) would I still be able to return on September 18th 2007, effectively making the stay more than one year?
Thanks!
Sep 14, 2006 | 7:42 am
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I can't give you a definitive answer, but I had a similiar situation recently which may apply to your query.
I recently changed the outbound on a paper ticket to a few days earlier, and was told that the ticket had to be reissued. When they reissued the ticket, the validity dates were changed to reflect the one year max stay based on the new departure date.
I think if you can arrange the date change without a reissue, you will probably get the extra days of validity. But I would guess that whoever is doing the reissue is well versed in updating validity restrictions for date changes.
Hope that helps
I recently changed the outbound on a paper ticket to a few days earlier, and was told that the ticket had to be reissued. When they reissued the ticket, the validity dates were changed to reflect the one year max stay based on the new departure date.
I think if you can arrange the date change without a reissue, you will probably get the extra days of validity. But I would guess that whoever is doing the reissue is well versed in updating validity restrictions for date changes.
Hope that helps
Sep 14, 2006 | 3:47 pm
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Originally Posted by sadiqhassan
If I were to change my outbound flight to a flight before September 18th 2006 (say, September 15th 2006) would I still be able to return on September 18th 2007, effectively making the stay more than one year?
Thanks!
Thanks!
On most tickets, they are valid for travel within 12 months of the date of issue and the inbound flight must then be within 12 months of date of outbound travel. Obviously, there are exceptions such as student tickets which often have a validity of 18 months and many IATA restricted fares are only valid for either 3 or 6 months.
Back to the drawing board if your looking for a loophole. You'll have to be far more cunning.
Sep 14, 2006 | 3:52 pm
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Thanks for the replies.
I was able to change the outbound date as I had originally suggested and was told that the return date would be fine. Name of CSR has been recorded, incase things get messy. Hopefully everything should go well, but worst comes to worst - I have alternative arrangements
Cheers
I was able to change the outbound date as I had originally suggested and was told that the return date would be fine. Name of CSR has been recorded, incase things get messy. Hopefully everything should go well, but worst comes to worst - I have alternative arrangements
Cheers