I pay for employees' flights on multiple airlines using my corporate card
all the time.

Only once can I think of a time when they called me because they were
asked to show a credit card.

I think it was when I purchased it through a third party. IIRC it was a
"package" that included airfare, hotel, and car, and I think it did
actually say that the credit card would be required.

I don't think it was an E-Ticket. He had to go to the ticket counter and
that's why they needed the CC...


"Al" wrote in :

My son in law purchased a ticket for my daughter on United Airlines
using a credit card. The purchase was made on line. When my daughter
showed up for the flight, she was refused boarding because she didn't
have the credit card in her possession. The ticket agent, in Eugene Or.,
said "We have to see the actual card, after all, it could be stolen".
The agent did say, that my son in law, a Marine, could go down to his
local United counter and show the card there, and the agent there would
mark the box in United's computer, so boarding could occur. The trouble
was, United doesn't have a counter in Al Asad, Iraq. The kid is coming
home from a tour of duty in Iraq, and the plan was for my daughter to
get to MCAS Miramar to meet him.
After some very tearful "discussion", and I believe, a direct threat
of
bodily harm from my wife, the agent allowed my daughter to board.
Has anyone here ever heard of this crap before? Aren't E-Tickets
usable?
What was going on here?

Al G