Buying air ticket to USA for foreign citizen
My girlfriend from Chile will be coming to USA in end of this year, and I want to take care of the ticket myself, by buying from Delta, for example (with or without using frequent flier points).
What do I need to purchase her ticket here from Santiago to Atlanta (round trip)? Do I simply specify all her information (name, passport number... etc) on traveler information section during the purchase? Or do I need to do something more specific?
Once she prints the boarding passes, would she have any problem using them because I bought it and not she?
I bought tickets for my family members that live in USA before, but I am not sure how would it work on international level.
Best Answer
Me and my friends have done that several times. One of my friends regularly uses a ticket which her father buys from Oman to the US to travel to and fro from the US i.e for a flight originating in the US but the ticket is bought in Oman by a different person (a family member in this case).
I have done the opposite several times as well, wherein I have bought a ticket from a US based website using a US credit card and then boarded flights from a foreign country to the US or even to some third country.
I also know of people who regularly but tickets for their parents in the US to come visit from India, I have never seen a problem in either of the cases.
As long as the information on the ticket matches with the passenger, you should have no problems whatsoever. But, it's always nice to make sure, so I'd suggest that you tell your girlfriend to check in online on the flight and even if it doesn't allow her to check in (which has arguably happened sometimes with code shared flights), ask her to verify her information. It shouldn't be a problem at all.
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