Dear readers, this article was written in January 2015, all information was current at the time of its publication. unfortunately, some services have changed the interface (checkmytrip.com), thereby complicating the process of printing tickets.
In this article, we will talk about booking and printing unpaid tickets. It's no secret that travelers are required to return air tickets when applying for visas, sometimes they ask about a return ticket right at the airport, etc.
Who needs an air ticket and why
To obtain a visa. One of the reasons for issuing fictitious reservations (air tickets, hotels, transfers, etc.) is the strict visa requirements of some countries, which probably live in the Stone Age and insistently require all the necessary paperwork (air tickets, hotel reservations, transfers, etc.) .).
There are a number of travelers who prefer to catch cheap air tickets (last minute deals) with visas in hand, and as the coveted ticket appears at a fair price, they immediately buy it. Such travelers first receive a visa (of course, without paid tickets), and then they look for tickets.
For presentation at airports. Return air tickets may also be required from you when entering those countries that allow tourists to arrive in their country without a visa, Thailand as an example. When traveling to Thailand, the traveler may be required to have a return ticket even before the flight and, if it is not available, may not be put on the flight.
In addition to airline tickets, you can check the availability of insurance, hotel reservations, etc. Each country has its own requirements for tourists, you can find out in advance about the requirements of the country to which you are heading using the Timatik service, in detail about it here.
If a visa is refused. Free booking of air tickets is also convenient in those cases when you are not sure whether they will issue you a visa or not and the correctness of filling out the documents does not play any role here. Especially if there were previously visa violations - overstay, unpaid fines and other violations you have already forgotten about. In such a situation, not many tourists want to sit with a paid air ticket in their hands, if there is no confidence in obtaining a visa, and booking without payment allows you to somehow calm your nerves.
It is especially important to have airline tickets when submitting documents to consulates of countries that often refuse to issue visas (USA, England, etc.).
How to book a plane ticket without paying
We will analyze in detail how to book a ticket without payment, in most cases it is booked for consulates and minimizing unnecessary questions at airports.
There are several important points you should know when booking flights without paying:
- there is no guarantee that the flight booking will last long. Sometimes airlines charge unpaid booked flights, but this happens in cases where there is little time left before departure and there are those who want to purchase a booked but unpaid ticket;
- in most cases, you will be given a visa, but if you found an air ticket at a good price and did not buy it, then closer to the date of your trip, such prices may no longer exist, so if you see good price for an air ticket, then it's worth buying it.
So, let's proceed to the very booking of an air ticket without payment. There are a few simple steps here, by completing which you will have a real flight booking.
Flight search for booking without payment
To search for an air ticket in the direction you need, go here, the search form and filters will help you find an air ticket for the required dates, if you are doing this for the first time, then read the article about air ticket search, it will help you save a lot when buying air tickets "Feature of air tickets search".
We choose any offer and proceed to filling in the data on the agency / airline's website to which the airline ticket search engine will transfer us. As mentioned earlier, some airlines allow you to issue tickets via the Internet, and pay at their offices, thereby giving us time to go to the visa center with active ticket reservations, other airlines keep the reservation for a long time, which is in our favor. Booking conditions provided by airlines change sometimes, so be careful.
The main task of all these manipulations is to get the so-called PNR code (booking code). Recently, many online services for the sale of air tickets, try not to show this data, but we will be more cunning.
Having filled in the standard data for buying air tickets, we will have a reservation number - this is a short set of characters consisting of Latin letters and numbers, the reservation number should be remembered or written down.
Sometimes on email a letter comes with the reservation number, sometimes the ticket reservation number is indicated right on the site page, this is not so important, we will need it only once.
How to print flight reservations without payment
The next step is to print the flight booking without payment. We go to one of the sites for checking air tickets and calmly print out our air ticket reservation.
There are several websites for printing an airline ticket (viewtrip.com, virtuallythere.com, myairlines.ru, etc.). For example, I use the site checkmytrip.com, it has a simple interface and it always works fine.
In the form that opens, we enter the reservation number, the surname for which the ticket was booked and click on the button. Further, it will be possible to print or save the itinerary receipt.
Video on how to print an unpaid ticket reservation
My friend (Anton Pushkarev), did short video clip , in which he tells in great detail about the printout of unpaid reservation. The video is three minutes long, be sure to watch it and like it if it helped you.
That's all, now you have a real (legal) flight reservation, which can become your ticket if you pay for it on time.
Flight booking
Air tickets are booked every time in the process of buying a plane ticket via the Internet, in most cases people do not even think about it.
In order to understand why air tickets are booked without our knowledge, you need to understand how most of the websites of air ticket booking aggregators work.
In fact, everything is very simple. When you are looking for a flight ticket, aggregator sites provide a selection of many ticket and airline sites. After choosing an air ticket (by price, time, etc.), the aggregator site redirects you to the airline's website, but not everyone does this, some sites offer to purchase an air ticket directly on their website, this is what the agent ru website does
It is at this moment that an air ticket is booked, which can go into a purchase or remain a booking. Thus, any ticket purchased online occurs stage online booking, the difference is only in the time that this reservation is held.
Where to book flights
There are several convenient ways to book and buy air tickets, about which I
- metasearch engines (airmail, skyscanner, etc.) - search for flights on many sites and provide you with a search result in a readable form (be sure to use the calendar low prices and a subscription to a price cut);
- ticket sites (agent ru, euroavia ru, etc.) - you can make a reservation directly on their website without going to the airline's website;
- air ticket exchanges (turdom ru and others) - as a rule, you can buy tickets here at a very good price, but you need to catch them;
- airline sites - sometimes such sites can be very inconvenient to navigate or lack of Russian, so you need to know English.
Terms of booking tickets of different airlines
The timing of booking air tickets depends on the conditions of the airline, and not on the site on which you book your ticket. Various factors (time before departure, availability of free tickets for this flight, etc.) may affect the lifetime of your flight ticket reservation.
The approximate time for which airlines hold reservations can be seen in this list:
- Qatar keeps the reservation up to 10 days;
- Aeroflot holds a reservation for no more than 2 days;
- Turkish Airlines holds a reservation for up to 10 days;
- KLM holds a reservation for no more than 1 day;
- UIA holds reservations for up to 10 days;
- AlItalia holds a reservation for no more than 1 day;
- AirBaltic keep your reservation up to 3 days;
- SAS holds reservations for up to 2 days;
- AirBerlin holds reservations for up to 4 days;
- AirFrance holds reservations for up to 4 days;
- Lufthansa holds reservations for up to 2 days;
- EuropeAir holds reservations for up to 7 days.
A number of airlines allow you not to pay for your booked tickets if you book on their websites, but you can pay at their office. In any case, carefully read the "small print" text on the cancellation policy. For example, Lufthansa will charge you a cancellation fee for a guaranteed reservation.
How to check the ticket
It is very easy to check an air ticket by reservation number and last name, now I will tell you about it in more detail. As I said earlier, all tickets purchased via the Internet are somehow booked through one of the global booking systems and thus each ticket (whether it is paid or not) has a unique booking number.
Check flight ticket through global booking sites
I know several global booking systems used by airlines and all those who sell air tickets: Sirena, Galileo, Saber, Amadeus. Any tourist can refer to these systems, but not directly, but through the corresponding information sites.
- Siren - www.myairlines.ru
- Saber -
Here the following nuance should be taken into account, depending on the airline, the booking system with which this airline works (Sirena, Galileo, Saber, Amadeus) will also depend, so you should know on which website to check your ticket. Sometimes, information about the booking system is indicated on air tickets, but for greater confidence, you can enter the booking number and surname on all the sites presented.
Check the purchased ticket by number and last name
Large ticket agencies (for example, onetwotrip) provide their customers with a number of options (print e-ticket, issue a refund, select the type of food on board, etc.), among which there is a check of the purchased ticket by number and surname (by the order or payment number and e-mail address or mobile phone number).
In order to check the ticket purchased on onetwotrip by number and surname, you should indicate the ticket number on this page www.onetwotrip.com/ru/ticket (namely the ticket number, not the booking number) and the surname that was indicated during registration ...
When to book a plane ticket without payment
To book a plane ticket without payment, as I wrote above, is required in the following situations:
- booking air tickets for a visa - it is done in cases where the country of issue of the visa is very meticulous and there is no guarantee in issuing a visa;
- delayed purchase of an air ticket - if you have found a good price for an air ticket, but have not yet decided to go or not, then the booking helps out and you can think about your trip in a calm atmosphere;
- lack of money to buy an air ticket - you found a plane ticket at the best price, but this moment there is not enough money to buy it (anything can happen in life, the salary is delayed, payment by bank card does not go through, etc.), in this case, make a reservation, and pay a little later;
- there is a high probability of a visa refusal - you know exactly for what reasons you may be denied a visa and do not want to have a paid air ticket on hand.
Air tickets booking for visa
To obtain a visa, in one sense or another, several ways are suitable to prove to consular officers that you have air tickets. Here are the most legal ones.
Return flights
The most reliable way to get your visa flight reservations is to buy return air tickets. You will have real air tickets (paid), suitable for obtaining a visa. With such air tickets, there should be no unnecessary questions from the consular staff to you.
After obtaining a visa, return air tickets can be returned with the loss of part of the money. It is not entirely clear why you need a visa then (you will probably travel by land, not by plane), but many make a reservation in this way - it is reliable and less nerves.
Flight booking without payment
A more risky and less predictable way of obtaining a visa is to take unpaid air ticket bookings to the consulate, there can be anything from the automatic cancellation of the reservation by the airline to the call of the consular officer to the airline.
Friends, it should be remembered that no fools work in consulates (at least, not more stupid than you and me) and they understand everything perfectly, and if they want to find a reason not to issue a visa, they will definitely find it. I strongly discourage making an air ticket reservation in Photoshop - this is pure deception, it is better to make an unpaid reservation, which in itself is an official document.
If you have successfully read this article to the end, then you know all the features when booking air tickets and now you can imagine exactly how it all works.
Just last week, I plunged head over heels into the issue of obtaining a Schengen visa. I chose the French consulate, as I expected to receive a long Schengen. The French do not require paid booking of air tickets, which means they can be insured and simply "write them out". Suddenly there will be some problems with the issuance of a visa or you will have to move the dates of your trip after you have received the coveted sticker in your passport.
Booking plane tickets without payment is also suitable for those who make a visa for one state, and will travel on a different route. This is fraught with offense to the country that issued the visa, but if it is necessary, then let's consider the options.
I must say that the task was not easy. In theory, I knew you could buy tickets without paying, but I had never done that before. I have read a lot of tips on the Internet, but bad luck - basically, they are all outdated. The services that bloggers wrote about apparently realized that they were being shamelessly used and removed the ticket booking chip without payment. For example, many have mentioned in articles Agent.ru... Like, at the stage of booking tickets, the system shows the PNR reservation code, which can then be pushed through Checkmytrip.comand make a printout for the consulate. This method no longer works! Agent.ru removed the PNR code and show only the secret code of the reservation. Money in the morning, chairs in the evening.
1. Air France (deferred payment 4 days)
Airline Air France offers to use the deferred payment service. The service is paid, but it costs only 210 rubles per passenger. At the second stage of booking (selection of additional services), you need to add the option "time to think".
After paying for additional services, the booking will be assigned a PNR code. the confirmation advance booking will come by e-mail. You have 4 days to drive at a gallop to the visa center and hand over a set of documents. I recommend booking flights last, when all other documents are ready.
In the end, I used this method. It seemed to me correct to book a direct flight, although who cares how exactly I fly to France.
2. Turkish Airlines
The airline allows you to book a ticket for free for 3 days. At the stage of choosing a payment method, check the box next to "book a flight and pay later."
Here is our PNR code booking. You can print it directly from your browser.
3. Euroavia.ru
Euroavia.ru has a completely official service - "Booking air tickets for a visa". First, a standard search and selection of air tickets is performed, then personal data is entered. At the stage of payment, another tab appears - "Reservation for a visa".
The cost of the service is 300 rubles, the reservation is kept for you for 7 full days. It is enough for submitting documents to the visa center and getting the result.
4. Aeroflot
Many resources advise you to book a ticket with Aeroflot. To be honest, I didn't get the joke.
Option number 1 - call the Call-center, book a ticket, promising to pay later in the office, and ask to send the reservation by e-mail.
Option number 2- book a ticket on the website and choose to pay in cash at the office. Check out the tariff))
I did not test the first option, but I tried the second. Aeroflot sent a reminder to the post office to pay for the ticket. There was a PNR code in the letter, but the booking could not be printed in a decent form. Everywhere there was an inscription "Pay"... In my opinion, the first three options for booking tickets are much better and more reliable.
To summarize, you can book tickets without payment through the websites of loyal airlines or through third-party ticket services. You need to search for the service on the website itself, not all airlines have the option of deferred payment.
Of the European carriers, AirBaltic still provides a ticket for 48 hours, the cost of the service is 6 euros.
I hope the article was helpful to you).
Postpaid airline reservations are a common service offered by all major airlines. As a rule, the booked ticket must be paid within a short time, which is not always convenient. Sometimes it becomes necessary to book air tickets without payment, only so that the air ticket reservation is fixed. Subsequent payment in this case is not carried out, since a person needs a fact booked ticket, but the ticket itself is not needed. This manipulation can be done using services for booking tickets. This is not difficult to do if you know all the nuances of the procedure.
Ticket booking principle
Not everyone knows what flight booking is. This is a service provided by major airlines and intermediary firms (ticket agents) that allows you to reserve a ticket for your desired flight, but not pay for it right away. Such a reservation is held for a short time. The client is given about a day to pay for the ticket. If the airline does not receive payment within the agreed period, the reservation will be automatically canceled.
How to make a reservation depends on the characteristics of the site providing such a service. The general scheme is as follows:
- choosing a ticket for the required date;
- entering your own passport data;
- entering the bank card number (if the client is going to buy a ticket).
This procedure can be carried out both on the website of the carrier company and on the websites of ticket agents who provide services for booking tickets for any type of transport in any direction. The period for which a ticket can be postponed depends on the date of the flight, the airline for which the ticket was selected, and the policy of the website providing the booking service.
When you need a delayed reservation
You may need to book plane tickets without payment in the following cases:
- lack of funds for instant payment of the selected ticket;
- the need for a visa;
- to visit some countries.
Often, when planning a trip, people are faced with the so-called "last minute" tickets, which are sold at a reduced cost. Such offers are rare, so it is customary to keep track of them. It may happen that at the moment the promotional offer appears, the client does not have his bank card at hand, or there is not enough money to pay the full cost of the travel document. In this case, the opportunity to book a ticket with further payment within a few days will come in handy.
When applying for a visa, documentary evidence of the availability of booked tickets is required. Many people choose not to buy a ticket before visiting the consulate for fear that the visa will not be confirmed. Thus, a person may face the following unpleasant situation: plane tickets have already been bought, a hotel reservation has been paid, and a visa has been refused. When making a flight without paying for a visa, delayed booking of air tickets is the only way out not to lose cash in case of refusal by the consulate.
Deferred bookings may be required for entry to certain countries. For example, tourists are allowed to Panama only if they have a return ticket for departure from the country. If at the same time a person plans to leave the state by land transport, delayed booking will become the only possible way out of this situation, since it will be expensive to buy an air ticket just to resolve bureaucratic issues.
Benefits of delayed booking
Before you figure out how to book a ticket without paying and how you can get a booking confirmation, you should find out why this service is so useful.
Confirmation of the booked ticket is included in the list of prerequisites for obtaining a visa. When making a delayed booking, it will not be difficult to obtain such documentary evidence of travel documents, since the booking can be traced on the airline's website.
Websites that provide booking services without payment allow you to postpone a ticket for a period of three to ten days, depending on the date of the flight. For example, Korean Air and Emirates allow you to hold a reservation without payment for 5-10 days. The less time is left until the selected flight, the shorter the booking period will be. So, for a fast flight, a ticket can be booked for no more than three days, but when booking tickets long before the flight date, the booking will be about seven days. As a rule, seven days is enough to book a ticket, print out a document confirming the availability of a reservation and submit documents to the consulate. The same period is sufficient if you need to present a return ticket to visit some countries.
Booking on the carrier's website
Major airlines provide deferred booking of plane tickets without payment on their websites. On these sites there are urgent offers at promotional prices that allow you to purchase a plane ticket at a great discount. In addition, on certain days of the week, ticket prices may also be reduced.
Important! When booking, remember that the carrier reserves the right to shorten the booking period without warning or cancel the booking altogether.
The duration of a deferred reservation depends on the direction, ticket prices and the time remaining before departure. So, when booking tickets long before the flight, the booking period is on average 3-4 days. The term for booking tickets for the next flights does not exceed a day.
The maximum possible period for booking is provided by Turkish Airlines and Qatar. On the websites of these carriers, you can postpone the payment for the flight for up to 10 days.
United Airlines allows you to reserve a ticket and defer payment for up to one week. Other well-known airlines offer to postpone the payment of the reservation for no more than 4 days.
Important! When choosing this method of booking, you should carefully read all the information on deferred payment provided on the website. Some companies allow you to postpone payment for no more than one day. If after 24 hours the payment is not made, the reservation is automatically canceled.
Making a reservation on the websites of travel companies
For booking tickets, many prefer to use intermediary sites, rather than the official sites of airlines.
There are also sites that, for a reasonable fee, provide a service for booking tickets specifically for presenting documentary evidence to the consulate. When confirming a reservation on such a website, there is a special column "reservation confirmation only". The cost of such a service is about 300 rubles, depending on the intermediary site. Thus, by paying a small amount, the client is guaranteed to receive a confirmed visa reservation without paying the full ticket price for a period of 7-10 days.
The advantage of a paid service over a free one is a longer booking period. On a free site, this period is from two days and depends on a number of factors, while when paying for the service, the client is provided with a guaranteed reservation for at least one week, and the maximum reservation period is 10 days, depending on which airline tickets are chosen by the client.
You can issue the required travel document on the website Agent.ru or euroavia.ru. The first site provides the service for free, on the second site the cost of deferred booking is 300 rubles. Both services are intermediaries, so the cost of tickets is more expensive than on the websites of airlines.
The timing of booking on Agent.ru directly depends on the date of the flight. It is impossible to predict this, as these time frames are imposed by the airline. Thus, the reservation can be from three days to a week, in rare cases it is possible to postpone the payment for the flight for 10 days. To make a reservation on this service, you must register and get access to personal account.
The euroavia.ru service provides a paid service designed specifically to confirm a reservation when applying for a visa. This service is 300 rubles, payment is made online. A paid service allows you to get a reservation for one week.
Reservation instructions
The following instruction will teach you how to book a plane ticket via the Internet without instant payment on the Agent.ru website:
- First you need to go to the site and register to gain access to your personal account. It is not necessary to do this, since you will still have to enter personal data when booking tickets.
Advice! If you need to book tickets on a regular basis, it is recommended to go through the registration procedure once in order to save time on manually entering the necessary data in the future.
- On the main page of the site, you must enter the points of departure and arrival. You can do this manually or select cities from the list. Departure and return dates are also selected here.
- After the client has made a choice and pressed the flight search button, the site analyzes all possible options and redirects to another page, which details the prices and duration of the flight. The cheapest option comes first. Typically, each low cost ticket is represented by a small airline. Since the client will not pay for the ticket, it is recommended to give preference to the offer from major airlinedespite more high price... This little trick is a guarantee that the duration of the reservation will be longer and the confirmation of the reservation will not keep you waiting long, since a large carrier takes care of its image.
- Having chosen the best flight, you should click on it, as a result, the site will redirect to the booking page.
- To make a reservation, you must enter the following personal details of the booking: e-mail address, passport number, citizenship, document validity period, surname and full name, as well as the date of birth of the passenger. Finally, the site will prompt you to enter a phone number so that a service representative can contact the client. After entering the above data, you must check them again, and then agree with the correctness of the information provided by clicking the appropriate button.
- The next step is to choose additional services, such as insurance for the duration of the flight or for the period of stay in another country. Since the ticket is issued only to confirm the reservation, these services are not needed and it is recommended to refuse them by unchecking the checkboxes opposite the offer. Then you should press the button to place the order.
- After the order is confirmed, the site redirects to another page. Here you can find a code consisting of six digits and a time counter showing how much is left before the need to pay for the ticket.
Important! On the page with the booking confirmation code, you do not need to click the order payment button.
After going through the procedure on the Agent.ru website, you need to copy the received six-digit code. With its help, you can get a confirmation of your reservation. This procedure is carried out at checkmytrip.com. Going to the site, you should insert the code into the appropriate column located at the very top of the main page. The client's surname is entered immediately. Then you need to press the check button. After a few seconds, the page will be refreshed, it will show the flight and passenger data, and at the bottom it will be highlighted in green that the reservation has been confirmed. This page can be printed and taken to the consulate when applying for a visa. The printed booking confirmation page is also used to confirm the availability of a return ticket when entering another country.
When a ticket is issued, reminders of the need to pay will be sent to the e-mail address of which the client indicated on the Agent.ru website. Upon expiry of the deferred payment period, the reservation will be automatically canceled, so the client does not need to do anything. If you wish, you can go to the site and manually cancel the reservation in your personal account.
The advantage of such a booking is that the client does not provide his bank card details, so there is no need to worry that the ticket price will be debited from the bank account.
For those who are not afraid of losing a certain amount of money, the option with the exchange and refund of the ticket may be suitable. In this case, the passenger purchases a ticket and then changes it for another date if the visa is refused. When the visa is confirmed, the paid ticket can be returned, while losing some amount.
Video
Knowing how to book flights and get a booking confirmation, everyone can travel easier and cheaper. Using the described booking method on special sites will allow you not to spend money on extra tickets and will provide the necessary confirmation when applying for a visa at the consulate.
Hello! Today I will tell you how to book a plane ticket without paying. When might you need it?
- For example, for a visa. In the list of documents for the Schengen countries there is an item: air tickets. When we applied for a visa to China in Hanoi, we also booked flights without payment.
We enter the place of departure and destination. Just for example, we fly from our native Omsk to Bangkok, there on February 28, back on March 14. Click "Find".
2. A list of all available options is shown. Don't look at the price, you won't have to pay anything anyway. It is important to choose a decent airline, as they usually provide an opportunity to defer payment for a certain period. It can be Emirates, Etihad, Korean Air, or you can google the airline you want.
3. We select the desired flight - then we get to the checkout page. You must enter your E-mail, name, surname, date of birth, document number, citizenship and passport validity period. Leave your phone number at the bottom and put a kryzhik in the “Agree” column.
4. It is proposed to take out insurance, it is not needed, uncheck the checkbox and press "Place an order".
5 ... Done! We now have a six-digit reservation code (PNR) at our disposal. In total, we have a little over 3 days. You don't need to pay anything!
6. We go to the site and enter the six-digit PNR code and the last name into the fields. As you can see, the reservation is confirmed, which is written in green.
7 ... Click on the "Print" button, a page is displayed on which the inscription "Confirmed" proudly flaunts. You can safely print it and carry it to the consulate, if required.
8 ... In addition, a reminder is also sent to the mail. It is indicated that the airline may unilaterally shorten the payment period for the order. Therefore, I recommend making an unpaid air ticket reservation as early as possible, and not on the eve of a trip to the consulate, for example.
The booking will then be canceled automatically, or it can be canceled manually. Thus, you do not even shine with the details of your bank card, while an unpaid reservation on hand is a beauty!
A little more about how this whole system works. The point is that all reservations go through global distribution systems. The main ones are Amadeus, Galileo, Saber. All air cashiers must know them like the back of their hand. The Agent.ru website works through Amadeus.
- used to check reservations in the Amadeus system.
- to check reservations in the Galileo system.
- to check bookings in the Saber system.
What to do if the reservation is not made?
- If your reservation is not determined through checkmytrip, then try to find your reservation through the other two sites.
- It happens that the system simply dulls or fails, in which case you will have to repeat everything again.
- I read that some people get a 5-digit code, not a 6-digit code. In this case, it is recommended to go to the website of the airline whose flights you booked and check your booking there.
- We simply canceled the next day, although it was indicated as in the example, about 3 days. Please try again or choose a different airline when booking.
With us, this method, together with an unpaid hotel reservation from booking, completely rolled in (Vietnam) - a visa was given, though only for two weeks, although the reservations were for a month. This once again suggests that no one will give a 100% guarantee of success. After all, in the end, the visa is issued by the consul, and this is a living person.
For Schengen, the reservation must be kept for at least 7 days, so it is more likely that when checked at the consulate, your tickets will beat in the booking systems.
Successful trips to consulates and memorable travels, friends!
This question often arises for those who apply for a visa and must provide a round-trip ticket as one of the confirmations of the planned trip. But not everyone is ready to risk buying a ticket, because there are no guarantees that they will definitely give you a visa.
They did not give a visa - they lost the ticket (and even if it is refundable, part of the amount in the form of a fine is still lost).
So, is it possible to book air tickets without payment, but with the ability to issue a document that can be submitted to the consulate?
There is! But it is important to know a few subtleties that will help you find such tickets and get such a service for free.
It's actually pretty easy to make free flight bookings. This can be done on the website of some airlines that allow deferred payment for the reservation or on special services.
In general, airlines are sympathetic to the need for deferred payment when booking. So, United is ready to hold the reservation for a whole week, and Korean Air is ready for ten days! By the way, Aeroflot also gives you the opportunity to pay for your tickets later, giving you a whole week to keep your booking. When booking on the websites of airlines, pay attention to the cancellation rules, the fact is that some airlines reserve the right to charge small fines if you refuse to pay for your reservation on time.
There is one more, more convenient way search for the desired ticket and book it without payment - booking agency
This option is the most common because the agency can provide a deferred payment service for tickets and for those airlines that themselves do not have such an opportunity. Have experienced travelers the agent.ru service is popular, where you can book tickets without payment for a period of 12 to 72 hours.
But on the website of the agencies themselves, it is often not possible to print an electronic ticket (it does not yet exist until you have paid for the booking) and even a paper version of the booking.
The services of checking reservations will help here:
After making a booking, enter your 6-digit PNR code on one of the services (must come to your e-mail after booking) and your last name in Latin. After that you will see your reservation with the "confirmed" status and you can print out the reservation, which will fully satisfy the consular officer when applying for a visa.
Below the whole process is detailed in the screenshots.
We go to the agency's website and select the desired flight. For example, to submit documents for a visa to the Italian Embassy for a Schengen visa, we choose flights Moscow-Rome-Moscow.
We go through the standard process of issuing a ticket, where you need to indicate your full name in Latin, date of birth, passport number with expiration date and select gender.
We reach the moment of payment, but do not rush to enter the card data. We already have everything you need.
All we need is a PNR code. Here it is, indicated by a red arrow. Copy it ...
And now we go to one of the booking verification services.
I prefer www.checkmytrip.com.
Here, in the fields, enter the copied PNR and the surname for whom the booking was made in Latin
The booking will open. All that remains is to print out its paper version.
We click on PDF, receiving also the file of our booking.
