12-30-2019
12:14 PM
12-30-2019
12:14 PM
@TheMiddleSeat wrote: When you cancel the dummy reservation the travel funds you receive can only be used by the passenger(s) named on the dummy reservation. As you are trying to book flights for two people I would suggest handling each person individually, creating two individual dummy flight reservations, one in each person's name. Yes, you will have to go through the booking process twice, but this will allow you to clearly see how much value you have associated with each person. On the final reservation you can then apply the two travel funds, one for each person to the reservation. Also, are you certain you have LUV Vouchers and not travel funds? Just want to double check as that affects how to handle this situation and how funds can be applied. If you only have LUV Vouchers continue on... Regarding taxes... LUV Vouchers cannot be used to pay for taxes, that's why the first step indicates you will need to temporarily pay for the taxes on a credit card. When you cancel the dummy reservation the taxes will be refunded to you, back to your credit card. Then you will have a travel fund which can be used to pay taxes so you will not use your credit card on the final reservation. Here's my suggestion... Using a $110 and $25 Voucher, book DEN-SLC one way on Feb 14, flight#820 for $145 for passenger A. You can use the Vouchers to pay for the fare portion of the ticket, $121.56 and your credit card for $23.42 in taxes. Cancel that reservation and request a refund of the taxes back to your credit card. You now have a travel fund for $121.56. Using the second $110 Voucher and the $20 Voucher book the same flight for passenger B and cancel as above. You now have a 2nd travel fund for $121.56. Now make a single reservation for the round trip you want for both passengers. Total cost should be 69+69+49+49, approximately $236. Your two travel funds will cover that with approximately $3.56 remaining on each fund. You also have some small remaining balance on the Vouchers you used to make the dummy reservations, approximately $13 for the Vouchers used by passenger A and $8 for the vouchers used by passenger B. Hopefully this clarifies things and I'd appreciate if other Champions double checked my logic here, I'm a bit rusty with Vouchers. --TheMiddleSeat Good point on combining the vouchers, that the dummy tickets would result in travel funds for that named person only. I agree the best approach to go per person, and I also wanted to verify that these were LUV vouchers and not travel funds due to the valuations. I haven't often heard of LUV being issued in $20 denominations for instance. I think by booking one-ways for each individual then the funds could be used without the dummy ticket workaround but there would be some residual values - need to know if the vouchers (or funds) would be likely to be used later this year or if it is critical to use the full value now without paying cash for the taxes.
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