TOKYO, Dec 19 (News On Japan) –
As the year-end journey season approaches, a rising downside involving airline tickets has begun to floor, drawing consideration from main carriers.
Last week, Japan Airlines posted a warning on X stating, “Japan Airlines prohibits the transfer or resale of airline tickets to third parties.” The airline stated prohibited acts akin to ticket resales and transfers are spreading throughout social media platforms.
On X, customers have been seen posting provides to promote tickets they can’t cancel, with messages akin to, “Non-refundable, looking for someone to take it. Asking 35,000 yen.” Some customers have even created hashtags like “airline ticket transfer” to facilitate these transactions. One passerby stated that they had seen such posts earlier than and felt that folks had been casually passing tickets on to others.
Japan Airlines prohibits the resale or switch of tickets, however does this represent against the law. According to lawyer Kitagawa Takahiro, airline phrases of service require that solely the particular person named on the ticket might use it, which turns into critically essential within the occasion of an accident or different hassle.
Kitagawa added that if a vendor purchases a ticket from the outset with the intention of reselling it, the act might represent fraud. He additionally warned that patrons might face authorized dangers as effectively, explaining that utilizing a ticket issued in another person’s title, going to the boarding gate, deceiving the airline and receiving its companies might quantity to fraud in opposition to the airline.
Japan Airlines is urging vacationers to not resell or switch airline tickets to 3rd events.
Source: TBS