[The_Judge]

Again, you don't say what your nationality is but with this link, you can change it. I used Austrian for you as you say you departed from Innsbruck.

These are the entry requirements into Costa Rica and as you can plainly see, you are required to have onward tickets. If you're saying that because it doesn't say the tickets have to be within the validity of the visa that it's ok to not have it, it also doesn't say you can't kill someone when you're there but you still can't do that.

http://www.timaticweb.com/cgi-bin/ti...&subuser=PEARL

It is inferred that you have valid tickets and documents for your next destination within the validity of your visa length.

[jimworcs]

I think the point is this. Many countries operate rules which allow them to fine airlines who bring in people who have no legitimate right of entry or are in breach of visa regulations. Therefore, the airline itself may impose conditions of carriage which stipulate that passengers meet visa requirements on entry, even if the rules permit, as in this case, the traveller to "bypass" the regulations. I think there is little chance this complaint would succeed, but it s frustrating when you knw it can be done legitimately, but the airline s unwilling to take the risk