![]() ![]() And always verify with the airline if your “confirmed” reservation indeed has a real ticket to go along with it. The BET Awards 2023 were throwing it back to the Y2K era in the best way, with attendees channeling the trending decade via their wardrobe and their hair and makeup. If an offer sounds too good to be true, it may be a scam. Suffice it to say, it is best to book your flight tickets directly with an airline or via a trusted travel platform. But the mechanism behind his and Ferguson’s scenarios are identical. In this case the problem had to do with the airline’s policy of not issuing e-tickets against bookings until an identity check was completed by the passenger-something Alexander missed because the ID verification email landed in his spam folder. ![]() In 2019 a traveler named Alexander told his story to The Points Guy of a mishap in which his flight to Spain was merely confirmed but never ticketed-which he didn’t find out until he arrived at the airport. Scams aside, the gap between reservation holds and ticketing can cause problems for travelers all by itself. Scammers do exactly the same thing by booking the hold under their victim’s name. But no e-ticket number is listed anywhere on the reservation-indicative of this being a mere “hold”-meaning it's a reservation that’s “confirmed” but not ticketed. For the two weeks after I made this booking, Qatar Airways’ website would show the confirmation number as valid. ![]() To test how a dummy ticket scam works, I purchased a Qatar Airways reservation for $20 via a legitimate third-party travel agency. After some persuasion, the BA representative ultimately told Ferguson that while the reservation code she provided was correct, there was no record of an e-ticket number. BA would not release information to Ferguson, as she was not the party who had directly booked the reservation with the airline, she says. But about two weeks after purchasing this ticket from Infinity Global Travel, and just days before her scheduled departure date, the reservation disappeared from BA's website without a trace.įerguson, who also relayed her story to the UK's Channel 5, contacted the airline and explained her situation, but she was told there were no flights booked in her name. When she looked up the reservation on BA’s website using the confirmation number and her last name, it showed up valid and fine. A single working mother of two daughters, Ferguson says she was sold what appeared to be a valid British Airways ticket from London to Kingston, Jamaica. Mevonnie Ferguson, who lives in Kent in the UK, says she was scammed out of £994 ($1,267) by someone claiming to work at a travel agency called Infinity Global Travel. ![]()
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