<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (hiropaja @ Sep 20 2009, 09:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
One question, though - has anyone ever had trouble with carriers refusing to allow a destination change within the same zonal fare? I thought that I had read that traveling in the same or lower zone was permitted on ZED tickets, so I was a little disappointed about that - but maybe I just read that part incorrectly.[/b]
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Migflanker @ Sep 21 2009, 02:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
Interesting you mentioned "trouble with carriers refusing to allow destination change within the same zonal fare." Nick just asked the same question. http://nonrev.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2753
This doesn&#39;t sound good.[/b]
Well well, very interesting indeed. I wouldn&#39;t mind a fistful of tickets if I could cash them out easily, but any backup I buy takes at least 2 months to refund. One only gets 55 interest free days on credit card (and one normally gets them a week or so before the trip - ours isn&#39;t instantaneous like a lot of other airlines), and I pay 3% fee to get tix this way so in the end, backups have a real cost to me so I try and limit how many I take.

Would you believe I had this issue on my own carrier once? I rock up to HKIA the morning of my last day of training, as it is the hub you can lodge bags hours and hours before the flight. I have a confirmed FOC ticket in hand (taxes only, no fare component... we get 1 x 4 sector ticket like this a year which is confirmable and offers a much high priority than normal). The FOC ticket is printed HKGLAX but I am confirmed HKGSFO instead, which is in another zone (by what... a few miles?). The taxes are the same for both ports, yet the agent refuses to take it - then notes in my PNR "Pax holds with invalid ticket, do not accept". Thanks. Then I call some colleagues and we amend the PNR with another OSI saying that it is OK to accept and put our telex code, I go back to the agent and they take it! The fact that she had to be told to do this, and couldn&#39;t independantly rationalise that it made zero difference to processing the ticket is beyond me. What is it that CO did all those years ago.... burned the rulebook and told their staff to use common sense? Good idea, imo