[Renato]

Originally Posted by lostinlondon

My understanding is that airline tickets cannot be booked more than 12 months in advance. Can anyone confirm?
When reporting an incident involving overbooking, a similar comment tends to come-up: '' but... I booked my ticket(s) X months before the flight...". Unfortunately, the selection of who to offload in such situations is not linked to the date of purchase but, AFAIK, to the time of check-in, status within the carrier's FFP or even price paid.

I cannot confirm when the tickets were actually purchased as we booked the package through a tour opperator called Unleashed Travel. Most of the bookings along with payment were made in May 2011 for travel in December 2012. Unleashed Travel negioted with Virgin Airlines to put on 2 extra flights to Fiji and return because there were 300+ kids booked on this package. The Tour Operator was in Fiji personally trying to get these 11 kids on flights as well and he was totally disgusted with what Virgin Airlines had done.