Buying a flight ticket on behalf of someone else

[God’s Grace27 4]

35 minutes ago, afrocraft said:

I can add  my personal experience travelling from Lagos: Take a scanned image of the credit card used to make the purchase.  

 

One other thing to consider is have your US spouse present the credit card at the airline's ticket desk at an airport a day or two before your travel date.

I’ll be traveling from Lagos and I already have the scanned copy of the card. So now do I still need to tell my fiancé to present the card at the airline ticket desk  prior to my arrival date?

[afrocraft 313]

4 minutes ago, NB West said:

I’ll be traveling from Lagos and I already have the scanned copy of the card. So now do I still need to tell my fiancé to present the card at the airline ticket desk  prior to my arrival date?

You don't have to, but if s/he lives close to an airport or will visit one, it won't be a bad idea. It can be any airport, not just the one you're arriving in, so long as the airline has a desk there. An airline once asked me to do this, which is why I suggested it. The agent at the desk made a note on their system (I guess that she'd inspected the physical card).

Edited October 3, 2019 by afrocraft

[God’s Grace27 4]

7 minutes ago, afrocraft said:

You don't have to, but if s/he lives close to an airport or will visit one, it won't be a bad idea. It can be any airport, not just the one you're arriving in, so long as the airline has a desk there. An airline once asked me to do this, which is why I suggested it. The agent at the desk made a note on their system (I guess that she'd inspected the physical card).

Ok. I’m traveling sometimes next week but then I’ll get to the airline desk at the airport this weekend to make any necessary enquiry. Thanks 🙏🏼 

[Lili_K 39]

Really depends on the airline. Taiwanese airline, EVA air requires you to print out a form, have it signed and bring it to their Eva air office in your country, if you used someone else's credit card to pay for your flight.