How to fly without force majeure: 14 tips that can save your vacation

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

What you need to take care of so that you don't have to change your ticket, search for your luggage and avoid deportation.

Travelers can face many troubles: bad weather, deception, airline bankruptcy. But most of the problems arise from commonplace things that could be controlled on their own. We will tell you what to consider when planning an air flight and how to travel without difficulties.

1. Carefully check the travel dates before and after payment

This is the most common mistake. Sometimes, in search of a better price, a traveler looks at the tickets for the next month, sees an attractive price and happily buys them. Only at the airport it becomes clear that the plane is not flying in May, but in June.

2. Immediately report if you made a mistake in the data

A mistake in the last name, first name or patronymic of the passenger is critical. It is difficult to fix it, and more often than not it is impossible. But it is worth remembering that since the days when tickets were issued at the box office, the option of canceling the ticket without a penalty on the day of checkout has been preserved. This was done in order to correct an operator error.

If you report a mistake before the expiration of the calendar day, then the probability of ticket cancellation without a penalty is very high. The main thing is that it does not contradict the rules of the airline.

3. Do not be afraid to buy tickets when changing your passport and surname

If you change your surname after marriage, you can fly with an old Russian passport within the country for 30 days.

You can fly with your old international passport as long as you like, so you can safely buy tickets.

But you can't get a visa with such a document.

If you need to buy a ticket right now, but you know for sure that you will have to fly with a new document, there are several ways to solve the problem. When submitting documents at the passport office, ask to show how your first and last name will be indicated in the new document, or write a statement asking you to keep the current spelling.

After that, buy a ticket with the correct spelling of the surname and first name, indicate the old passport number, and after issuing a new document, replace the number in the ticket. This can be done as opposed to changing the spelling of the first and last name. However, before paying, you should make sure that this procedure will be free of charge with the selected airline.

If you first bought a ticket and then changed your surname, you can send a document confirming your marriage. It is important that this happens after the purchase of the ticket. Otherwise, you will be refused to change the data.

There are companies on the market that allow you to make a personal exchange, but the fines for this will be quite high.

With Chinese airlines, such a number will definitely not work.

4. Correctly indicate children when booking

All children under the age of two are considered infants. They fly on the lap of their parents, but they still need to be indicated when booking. A separate ticket must always be issued for the infant.

Children from two to twelve years old fly in their own place. They have their own baggage allowance. It is also possible to issue such a ticket with a seat for an infant, but its price will be almost the same as for an adult.

5. Collect the necessary documents to accompany the children

Children can fly in Russia with any accompanying adult. There is no need to make any notifications that the grandmother or grandfather will go with the child. For domestic flights, a child under the age of 14 only needs a birth certificate.

If a child flies abroad with at least one parent, he does not need the notarized consent of the other parent. If he flies with any other accompanying person, he will have to acquire notarized consent of both parents.

6. Always take your child's birth certificate with you

Even if your child is entered in the passport or he has his own correctly executed document, but you refuse to show a birth certificate, then you will not fly away.

7. If you are not sure that one of the adults will fly, it is better not to indicate it first when booking

Because when booking infants and extra baggage are attached to the first passenger.

8. Don't miss flight sites

If you fly from Kazan through Moscow to Sochi, but at some point decided to get to Moscow by train, your second flight from the capital will be automatically canceled. The same applies to return tickets. If you miss your flight there, in most cases you will not be able to use a return ticket. If you missed one leg, then all the others are no longer valid.

9. Do not fly abroad without a return ticket

This is a direct route to deportation. Only those citizens who have the right to live there can go on such a journey. Or who have a student visa, residence permit or intent to marry.

10. Do not leave the airport without supporting documents on the cancellation or flight delay

Your itinerary receipt should be marked with a change in flight status. If it is not there, it will be much more difficult to get compensation.

11. Don't forget your luggage on connecting flights

It is not always overloaded by airlines. In cases when the first flight is domestic, and the second is international, or you are flying with different airlines, then with a probability of almost 100% you need to reload the baggage yourself.

12. Remember that connecting at some airports is possible only with a visa

If you are going to fly to Mexico, where a visa is not required, via the United States, you will have to obtain an American visa, otherwise you will not fly out. It's the same with some other countries.

13. If you are ill, provide a certificate of illness

It should cover the path not only there, but also back. The certificate must indicate that you are prohibited from flying for a certain period.

14. Correctly check in animals for the flight

When checking in for a flight with animals, it is important to remember that only the type of animal that was checked in first will be on board. Dogs and cats cannot be on board at the same time.