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"From the moment you first book your flight to the moment you step on the plane, there's a lot going on in the background. The following may be helpful in understanding what is happening.
The first step is to make a reservation for your flight. This means that the airline will hold a seat for you until a given date, typically a week or so before the flight. If you do not pay up before the expiration date, the booking will be cancelled and somebody else can grab the seat. Reservations can be changed and cancelled freely.
A seat reserved just for you will be listed as confirmed in your reservation, and will not be taken away. You can only confirm a single seat in each direction per ticket.
Tip: If you're not sure what time you can make it to the airport, book the last flight of the day. This way you can always try to fly standby if you get to the airport earlier than expected.
If you try to get on a fully booked flight, you can make a waitlisted reservation. If the waitlist "goes through", meaning that somebody else cancels and you get their seat, the waitlisted reservation becomes confirmed and any previously confirmed seats on other flights are cancelled. You can waitlist multiple flights.
Turning a reservation into an actual ticket is called issuing the ticket. An issued ticket must be paid for and, depending on ticket type, some or all of following restrictions may now apply:
nonchangeable: you cannot change the flight time and date (at least not without paying a heavy change fee)
nonendorsable: you cannot fly another airline if your airline has problems (for serious cases like flight cancellations this is usually overruled by local legislation)
nonrefundable: you cannot get your money back if you don't fly
nonreroutable: you cannot change to another route, even if the destination is the same
nontransferable: you cannot sell the ticket to somebody
If you are still waitlisted for a flight that you would like to board, or if you would like to take an earlier flight than you're booked on, you can try to fly standby. This means simply showing up at the airport check-in counter and asking to be put on the next flight. If there is plenty of space, you'll be checked in right there. However, if the flight is looking full, you will have to wait until the flight is closed (typically 30-60 minutes before departure) and the airline can calculate how many seats it has left.
If you don't check in by closing time, you will be declared a no-show. Your
seat can now be given to somebody on standby and your ticket is forfeited, which
depending on the ticket and airline may mean either total loss or, at a minimum,
a hefty no-show fee if you try to rebook."
- source: www.wikitravel.org
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