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Airline Vouchers
July 24, 2008 | Permalink
Flight cancellations sometimes mean obtaining an airline voucher, which in turn can be redeemed on a future flight. Once you have this voucher, how can you go about exchanging it and what are the pitfalls you may run into? Getting that voucher may be hard, but using it seems to be even more difficult.
MSNBC recently had an article citing how each airline treats vouchers. The best seems to be JetBlue and Southwest—their “paperless” policy and online booking systems apply to trips credited to you, which means rebooking a ticket is as easy as it was to book in the first place.
So the next time you are offered a voucher for being bumped from a flight—or are given one as compensation for a cancelled flight—consider who is giving it to you and how feasible it is to trade. It could be a great deal, or yet another airline headache.
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