Thread: How good is ZED Light when it comes to swapping airlines?

Originally Posted by knyta

Just checked my CSA instructions about ZED - and there is written that my ZED ticket MAY be reissued to higher fare level (ZL to ZM or ZM to ZH) and zone extended (1 to 2-9, 2 to 3-9 etc...) by every carrier with bilateral ZED agreement and taxes/fare paid to reissuing carrier.

Any ZED carrier willing to take you on one of its flight with a ticket which doesn't match the required category (ZH/ZM/ZL) or milage zone, MAY obviously ask you to pay the difference between what is needed by him and what you have on your ticket, but this is not something which you are automatically entitled to under the general ZED rules, if I understand them correctly.

That's also why you've been able to give 3 exemples of identical situations, all resolved differently.

Always good to hear such strories though.
My experience with AF has been the same: they are fairly relaxed towards ZED and don't seem to bother much about the 10 odd euro or so, which may occasionally be missing in case of a re-routing.