Buy Airline ticket with Credit Card?

[Graham Harrison]

"VS" <shmat@xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote in message
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> In article <Pd2dnVM_msa0d6LXnZ2dnUVZ8hWdnZ2d@bt.com>,
> Graham Harrison <edward.harrison1@remove.***************> wrote:
>
>>>Cut-and-pasted from the confirmation email for a BA e-ticket I bought
>>>for someone else (dated Nov 25, 2008):
>>>``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay for this booking
>>>to the airport with you, for verification, before you can travel.''
>>
>>Don't care what it says.
>
> You don't. But BA does, sporadically. For example, I was asked to show
> the credit card used to pay for the ticket when checking in at Gatwick.
>
>>Badly worded.
>
> Which part of ``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay
> for this booking to the airport with you, for verification, before
> you can travel'' do you find unclear?
>
>>However, they are well aware that
>>passengers buy tickets for one another and they know which card has been
>>used for payment *and* who the cardholder is so that they do *not* ask for
>>the card from someone who is not the cardholder.
>
> Of course. That's why they recommend that the cardholder bring the
> card to the airport (or, according to BA's phone representative,
> city ticket office) for verification at any time before travel.
>
>>I've purchased
>>tickets for other people from New York to Milan and Stockholm to Geneva to
>>name but two and they've never come anywhere near the UK, much less
>>London.
>
> Indeed, I have never seen this enforced anywhere except London.
> But in London, I was asked for the card and saw this happen to
> other people.
>
>>It's a non issue. It's totally doable.
>
> Yes, it's doable, as long as you bring the card used to pay for the
> booking to the airport with you, for verification, before you travel.
>
> Enforcement is sporadic, so you may very well get away without card
> verification. But then again you may not, especially if checking in
> in London. The fact of the matter that BA's e-ticket receipt
> clearly says:
>
> ``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay for this booking
> to the airport with you, for verification, before you can travel.''
>

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Which part of ``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay
for this booking to the airport with you, for verification, before
you can travel'' do you find unclear?

The bit that is missing that refers to what you have to do when payment was
made by some other method (which can include cash, a travel agency invoicing
the employer of the passenger, a cheque etc etc) quite apart from the issue
we are discussing.

[Sancho Panza]

"VS" <shmat@xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote in message
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> In article <X7u%l.946$Wj7.879@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com>,
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
>>> the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the tickets.
>>
>>This is no longer the case, at least not on any airline I've flown in
>>the past five years.
>
> BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.

How do they handle PTA's?

[Graham Harrison]

"Sancho Panza" <otterpower@x***********m> wrote in message
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>
> "VS" <shmat@xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote in message
> news:h1n2p3$58h$1@xenon.Stanford.EDU...
>> In article <X7u%l.946$Wj7.879@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com>,
>> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Check with the airline on this. The airline usually requires that
>>>> the ticket holder show the same crdit card used to buy the tickets.
>>>
>>>This is no longer the case, at least not on any airline I've flown in
>>>the past five years.
>>
>> BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.
>
> How do they handle PTA's?
>

Precisely.

[VS]

In article <Z_ednfCWpOhmT93XnZ2dnUVZ8h2dnZ2d@bt.com>,
Graham Harrison <edward.harrison1@remove.***************> wrote:

>>Which part of ``Please remember you must bring the card used to pay
>>for this booking to the airport with you, for verification, before
>>you can travel'' do you find unclear?
>
>The bit that is missing that refers to what you have to do when payment was
>made by some other method

This language appears in the email confirmation for a BA e-ticket
that I purchased through ba.com with a credit card for someone else.
It would not have been there if I paid in person with cash or through
a travel agency.

[VS]

In article <4a40d318$0$22546$607ed4bc@cv.net>,
Sancho Panza <otterpower@x***********m> wrote:

>>BA still requires this, although enforcement is sporadic.
>
>How do they handle PTA's?

First, I don't think it's even possible to issue a PTA on BA
through their website, so the point is moot.

Second, when I called BA to ask what to do in my case (buying a
ticket for another person, with travel originating elsewhere), they
suggested that I bring the card to the airport or BA ticket office
for verification prior to travel. Easier said than done, since BA
does not fly to my neck of the woods.

[z0ned0ut]

'marco polo' wrote thus:

>hi all,
>
>I want to purchase an airline ticket for a friend, using my Credit
>Card.
>
>Can I pay for it - and put the ticket in Her name?
>
>thanks
>marc

I have done this online a few times, but you need to check with
the airline.