Not exact matches
I like to take a screen shot of each mobile boarding pass so I can easily swipe through each
ticket image for the TSA
agent to scan rather than pulling them individually, hoping that cell service
holds.
Spirit Airlines, Allegiant Air, and Southwest Airlines challenged portions of the Department of Transportation's April 2011 air passenger consumer protection rule requiring airlines and
ticket agents to include all mandatory taxes and fees in published airfares,
hold a reservation without payment or penalty for 24 hours after the reservation is made, and prohibit post purchase baggage price increases after the initial
ticket sale.
The price per
ticket was $ 208.75 and the
agent offered to purchase the
tickets immediately because she could only
hold the
tickets for 10 minutes, just like any normal visitor to the Ticketmaster website.
If you need to transfer points to your Flying Blue account before booking, some friendly phone
agents have been known to put award
tickets on
hold for a couple of days which leaves plenty of time for transfers to process.
Hold the
ticket — A day after requesting the callback, I received a call from a number in California, and the SkyPass reservations
agent that I spoke to was quite helpful.
Six hours of phone calls with Delta booking
agents (and a healthy dose of elevator music while on
hold) I emerged with two sets of
tickets for 37,500 Skymiles each.
The price per
ticket was $ 208.75 and the
agent offered to purchase the
tickets immediately because she could only
hold the
tickets for 10 minutes, just like any normal visitor to the Ticketmaster website.
Great rates for
tickets, but need to call in, on
hold for 2 hours,
agent does not know how to find a
ticket, get disconnected, do it over 5 times, waste days and at the end still no
ticket.
But I have been successful 4 out of 4 times when calling and asking an
agent to place award
tickets on
hold.
One time I transferred the points while still on the phone and they posted immediately so I had the
agent go ahead and book the
tickets rather than place them on
hold.
We sometimes feel like a number in the
ticket line, while listening to the
hold music, and pressing «1» or «0» or whichever number will get you to a live
agent to speak to.
When a marketing tactic isn't legal (such as selling raffle
tickets or
holding an essay contest with the home as the prize) or appears to be a one - way
ticket to a lawsuit (like the
agent who set up the roller coaster through a listing for easier touring), it may be too far.