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Man Successfully Uses 19-Year-Old Plane Ticket He Found Under His Bed

Man Successfully Uses 19-Year-Old Plane Ticket He Found Under His Bed

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Paddy Maddison

Paddy Maddison

Cheap flights are hard to come by, as is outstanding customer service. So, imagine one man's luck when he was blessed with both after enquiring with United Airlines about a 19-year-old voucher he found underneath his bed.

John Walker from Greensboro, North Carolina, found the 1998 plane ticket, which he had completely forgotten about and amazingly, the company allowed him to redeem it. While this does raise some troubling questions about John's domestic hygiene, you really can't fault that customer service.

WFMY2 reports that John found the unused ticket from Nashville to Sacramento last month. It had originally been issued on December 31, 1998.

Although the flight was non-refundable, United Airlines had given John a flight voucher, which he'd never used and subsequently forgotten about.

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Terms and conditions sent by the company read: "Domestic wholly unused non-refundable ticket(s) can forever be applied toward the purchase of another domestic non-refundable ticket, for the customer named on the ticket."

Turns out they really weren't messing about when they said 'forever'.

John got on the blower and enquired about whether he would be able to redeem the voucher against a flight, but the confused representatives on the other end of the line had absolutely no idea how to deal with his bizarre query.

"No one knew what to do with a paper ticket because by this time paper tickets were long gone... they hadn't been issued for 10 or 12 years," John told WFMY2.

So, he took to Twitter instead - an approach which proved much more effective.

PA

John revealed: "They decided to honour it partly because of the letter even though it wasn't legally binding."

Despite the generous gesture, United actually went bankrupt in 2010.

This means that outstanding debts from that time, including 'forever' tickets like the one John found under his bed, are no longer valid.

He's since been issued with a $378 (£265) voucher for the airline in return, but he still hasn't managed to decide where he wants to go with it yet.

It's still unclear whether or not he has finished cleaning under his bed.

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: Viral, Planes, United Airlines, travel