Help! Re: Booking Flight for fiance

[actob99 156]

I have been flying Delta internationally 10-12 times per year for the past 8yrs and have NEVER had to present my credit card. I've purchased tickets for my mum and sister and they have NEVER had an issue either. At times I've also flown with KL/AF/CZ/KE with no issue. Every single time I have only been asked my Last Name and Passport for issuance of a boarding pass.

Great! You don't have to show your credit card when you're the purchaser and the traveler. Were talking about purchasing a ticket online for someone else(fiancee), not wife, mom, ect...

And it's not 100% that they will ask, but for sure they

will ask the majority. And with all the expense, time, sweat and tears poured into this process It would be pretty sad to listen to someones advice that advised against it, and then they had to watch the plane pull awAy from the gate with them not on it!!

[Hank_ 9,174]

I have been flying Delta internationally 10-12 times per year for the past 8yrs and have NEVER had to present my credit card. I've purchased tickets for my mum and sister and they have NEVER had an issue either. At times I've also flown with KL/AF/CZ/KE with no issue. Every single time I have only been asked my Last Name and Passport for issuance of a boarding pass.

was your mum and sister flying from the Philippines to the States?

[erynaught 43]

Just off the top of my head, my mum has not flown from PI, but other SE Asia, Africa and Europe. My sister few once from PI to VN. Both mum and sister have different last names than me.

Most of my travel has been business and the air charges are direct billed to my department and reconciled monthly by the company - i never see the money end of the transaction and am only aware of the costs in my quarterly reconciliation of my expense account. I don't know if my name is associated with the transaction other than pertaining to passenger info.

I;m not saying that it never happens, just that it has never happened to me or my family on well over 200 international trips. I do think it is prudent though to be safer than sorry. If I had ever had that experience or known someone who had, I'd be preaching the same advice. Note that I'm not advising against it at all.

I do call my credit card company prior to every trip that I can to let them know where I'll be and when. I do this because i HAVE had issues in the past where after several transactions they put a hold on my credit card and because of crappy cellular signal I was unable to resolve it quickly. Glad to see the fraud detection thing works when they see me eating dinner in NYC and a couple of days later purchasing train tickets and meals in Vientiane.

[Bill and Eve 1]

I sent my fiancee the info (c/c front and back same with my drivers license) but none was asked for before the flight but they did ask for exit money (lol)