Los Angeles return in January-unable to use-HELP !!!
We have 4 tickets from Sydney to Los Angeles departing early in January school holidays, 16 nights in USA, which we are now unable to use (a very long story) for 2 adults & 2 kids.
I got onto our travel agent, who said that as tickets are non-refundable, the only thing that she said could be done, was to try to sell them or give them away, as the airline allows a name change for $150/person up until few days before departure.
We paid around $7000 about 6 months ago (think it was $2000 for each adult & $1500 for each child) & we would obviously like to get as much back as possible. We have travel insurance, but that won't cover any loss, name change or cancellation.
The price included the credit card fee, 2 checked bags & food, drinks & seat selection.
The travel agent also said the childrens tickets could be converted to adults tickets by paying the difference between child & adult fare, but if tickets used by 1 adult & 3 children, there's no refund for child using adult ticket.
HELP !!!!!
Does anyone have any suggestions of how to sell them, if the travel agent can't sell them ?
The agent said they would send out an email to their thousands of email subscribers & if they sold them for us they would charge us a small fee, but they want us to put a selling price on the tickets & be prepared to sell any number of them from one to four tickets. They suggested asking 10% less than we paid or near offer & to be very negotiable, as the closer it gets to departure date, the less likely we are likely to sell them for anything like we paid. She also said airlines don't allow name changes, but luckily ours does. If we sold them, they could handle the funds & process any credit card payments & as the tickets have already been paid for, full payment wouldn't be needed straight away, so if someone wanted a ticket or tickets, they could pay them off over a few months.
One of our relatives said they would give us some frequent flyer points for the tickets, but we really need the cash.
there is interest. We have not set a price. we'd like 10% off what we paid. Not much left now at anything like what we paid. Cos anything in january school holidays is way more expensive now. I've said we'd take $6k & cover the name change fees of $600 & credit card fees of about $100.
Not desperate yet. Might be if haven't sold them by xmas. Agent did say, she's sold some name change tickets in mid Dec for Jan flights in the past, when nothing left on most airlines.