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Customer Service TERRIBLE customer service/ not honoring travel vouchers

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Sep 21, 2009, 1:59 AM

wkharris2001 wkharris2001 is offline

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it depends on if the ticket was an international ticket or a domestic ticket. an international ticket is valid for one year from the date of travel. however a domestic ticket is good for one year from the date of purchase. it is not delta's policy to issue you a travel voucher for your ticket, instead you keep your ticket, and reissue the ticket at a future date. this is confusing to many customers as they think it is a travel voucher, when in fact it is just their ticket that they are getting credit for

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