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Check for airline Ticket Receipt if you make changes on-line

Hi everyone, just sharing a hint to hopefully prevent any last-minute stress for you when you’re on your last month/week before a trip.

I went into Delta on-line Sunday evening and changed my reservation to go RT to Malaga instead of Madrid. I made the change, selected my seat assignments, and saved it. I pulled up the Delta site a second time to make sure it came up and all looked fine. Thankfully I’m one of those old-school types and printed the reservation and filed it.

This afternoon I decided I should go into the reservation and see if I could reserve a seat on the Transvia portion of the flight, and…..no reservation! Nothing to Madrid, nothing to Malaga! I called them, and with my confirmation # he said the reservation change didn’t completely finish, so I still had a hidden reservation to Madrid - oh no! Wow, this would have been a big mess because I also slid the dates one day to accommodate the change better with the new train route.

He stated that if you don’t receive an email after a change with a new receipt, the ticket has not been changed. So, hopefully sharing this prevents this type of “gotcha” for others.

Posted by
7596 posts

Yikes. Dodged that bullet nicely.

Good old paper (and being consistently organized and methodical), saves the day once again.

Well played.

Posted by
6193 posts

Funny timing. I booked a flight last night and was thinking about the amount of time to research vs book vs all the little steps to organize after booking. I always save a copy of the email itinerary to Dropbox for my Dad, as backup to filing it in the email folder for that trip.

I was thiinking I should streamline a bit, but I guess my overkill, er diligence, serves a purpose.

Glad you caught that!

Posted by
11174 posts

Jean, I'm glad that you were able to get that fixed.

I'm not a paper person, but I always check to make sure I have a reservation confirmation in my email before I leave the website where I booked it. I also take a screenshot of the reservation webpage so that I have all the relevant information and keep it until I get that confirmation.

Paper or screenshot, it's a good idea to always save that information just in case, no matter how you save it. So thank you for the reminder!