Do I have to be the one to buy the airplane tickets

[Commish10 427]

My friend can book with award miles and charge me .01 cents a mile which is $750 for two tickets from Manila. Thats more than a 50% savings. The tickets will show purchased by him. Is that going to be a problem?

[notantifun 196]

They're not gonna check at the airport who bought her plane ticket but if you buy the ticket yourself, you could use that receipt as evidence for her AOS. Not necessary but can potentially be useful.

[top_secret 2,455]

1 hour ago, Commish10 said:

My friend can book with award miles and charge me .01 cents a mile which is $750 for two tickets from Manila. Thats more than a 50% savings. The tickets will show purchased by him. Is that going to be a problem?

 

I have used my miles to book flights for my wife before we were married.  It always worked fine.  I don't think it matters on an immigrant visa but just under the category of the general challenges Filipinas face when traveling, we were always mindful that the name on the credit card used, even for the taxes on an award ticket, is in the APIS data and instantly viewable by immigration agents in a large list of countries.   She should at least be able to answer who your friend is who bought her ticket is if some hotshot IO got inquisitive.  When my wife was traveling as a tourist we always paid on her credit card in her name even the times it was my miles.

[RO_AH 1,659]

Doesn't matter at all. Just make sure all of the passenger details are put in 100% correct.

[Hank_ 9,174]

9 hours ago, Commish10 said:

My friend can book with award miles and charge me .01 cents a mile which is $750 for two tickets from Manila. Thats more than a 50% savings. The tickets will show purchased by him. Is that going to be a problem?

As RO_AH said it won't be an issue just so long as all the info on the tickets/boarding passes are in their names correctly.    NAIA use to ask for a copy of the CC used to purchase the tickets, not sure if they still do, may be g.

 

 

[flicks1998 1,044]

11 hours ago, Hank_ said:

As RO_AH said it won't be an issue just so long as all the info on the tickets/boarding passes are in their names correctly.    NAIA use to ask for a copy of the CC used to purchase the tickets, not sure if they still do, may be g.

 

 

The above in bold still goes on, although it can be inconsistent, a traveler needs to be prepared for this.  Its not necessarily NAIA implementing it, but the airlines.  Cebu Pacific and PAL can be notoriously bad on this requirement.  If ANYONE who is not the traveler makes a payment (whether in miles or on a credit card) the traveler should have a copy of the credit card of the person who paid for the flight or a brief letter from the person who had the miles.  This has been inconsistently applied over the last 20 years, but it does come up and I have seen people denied check-in because they didnt have this information.  

[Hank_ 9,174]

Totally agree .. BE PREPARED!   

[Joe Kano 327]

15 hours ago, flicks1998 said:

The above in bold still goes on, although it can be inconsistent, a traveler needs to be prepared for this.  Its not necessarily NAIA implementing it, but the airlines.  Cebu Pacific and PAL can be notoriously bad on this requirement.  If ANYONE who is not the traveler makes a payment (whether in miles or on a credit card) the traveler should have a copy of the credit card of the person who paid for the flight or a brief letter from the person who had the miles.  This has been inconsistently applied over the last 20 years, but it does come up and I have seen people denied check-in because they didnt have this information.  

They were very strict on this around 2008 to 2010 time frame when flying out of Philippines on Philippines based carriers, US Carriers were not strict.

[Joe Kano 327]

16 hours ago, flicks1998 said:

The above in bold still goes on, although it can be inconsistent, a traveler needs to be prepared for this.  Its not necessarily NAIA implementing it, but the airlines.  Cebu Pacific and PAL can be notoriously bad on this requirement.  If ANYONE who is not the traveler makes a payment (whether in miles or on a credit card) the traveler should have a copy of the credit card of the person who paid for the flight or a brief letter from the person who had the miles.  This has been inconsistently applied over the last 20 years, but it does come up and I have seen people denied check-in because they didnt have this information.  

Do you remember back when CebuPac would check your carryon luggage numerous times to see if it was overweight so tney could charge you more?

 

My nephew dragged one of them guys all the way onto the plane they were playing tug a war with his carry on, the pilot finally told the agent to let him board.

[flicks1998 1,044]

10 minutes ago, Joe Kano said:

Do you remember back when CebuPac would check your carryon luggage numerous times to see if it was overweight so tney could charge you more?

 

My nephew dragged one of them guys all the way onto the plane they were playing tug a war with his carry on, the pilot finally told the agent to let him board.

They used to be really inconsistent on that as well, but yes, there were times where they were ridiculously concerned on weight.  Around Christmas they would get more strict.  

 

It seems US carriers are more concerned on size than weight for carry on bags.

 

But in all honesty, Filipino travelers can get a bit ridiculous on the amount of items they bring on board. 

[Joe Kano 327]

50 minutes ago, flicks1998 said:

They used to be really inconsistent on that as well, but yes, there were times where they were ridiculously concerned on weight.  Around Christmas they would get more strict.  

 

It seems US carriers are more concerned on size than weight for carry on bags.

 

But in all honesty, Filipino travelers can get a bit ridiculous on the amount of items they bring on board. 

Yea, I didn't think about Filipino trying to do that, I thought it was because of my skin color

[Dave Knapp 47]

On 10/16/2021 at 9:12 PM, flicks1998 said:

They used to be really inconsistent on that as well, but yes, there were times where they were ridiculously concerned on weight.  Around Christmas they would get more strict.  

 

It seems US carriers are more concerned on size than weight for carry on bags.

 

But in all honesty, Filipino travelers can get a bit ridiculous on the amount of items they bring on board. 

Pasalubong doesn't count as baggage, even if they have 20 bags of it. ;-0