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Each airline enforces different policies when passengers lose their paper tickets. Generally, you must fill out a lost ticket application with the airline may issue a replacement ticket, but you must sign an agreement that you will pay for the cost of your replacement ticket if someone uses the ticket you have misplaced, also, you will likely required to pay penalty or service fee for the replacement, The airline may opt instead to require you to purchase a new ticket at the currently available fare, despite the advance purchase discounts or other savings you may have found when you bought the first ticket. Then, after an extensive waiting period (as long as twelve months), the airline will issue you a behind for the original ticket, if it was not used during that time. Sometimes, you may lose part of your paper ticket because the airline’s gate agent took the wrong coupon when you checked in for one of the flight segments. For example, if you are flying from Miami to Seattle via Atlanta, and the airline agent in Miami takes your Atlanta-Seattle coupon by mistake instead of the Miami-Seattle coupon, you may have trouble checking in for the secondsegmer1tofyourtrip,Always check your remaining ticket coupons when you sit down on the airplane, before the flight takes off, to ensure that you have the proper coupons, As many major airlines continue moving towards the use of e-tickets for most flights, lost paper tickets will become a much less common problem. With electronic tickets, you cannot really lore the ticket; if you misplace your printed itinerary or receipt for an electronically ticketed flight, your travel agent or the airline simply print a new copy for you. However; a growing number of e-tickets go unused every year bemuse travelers for-get about the flight or they change their travel plans without reusing the e-ticket in some way. Always keep your e-ticket confirmations and receipts in a single tile folder or drawer to keep track of them.

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