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will study his predicament and help him get out of it.
The best way for a person without money to get home—or anywhere else—is a “prepaid” ticket, Mrs. Ingram says. To get one, the stranded traveler must have a friend dr relative buy a ticket for him in an airline or railway ticket office anywhere in the country. Some bus tickets can also be prepaid.
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Record of the purchase is transmitted by computer or telephone, making the ticket available almost immediately. Some tickets can even be “over-paid,” so that the traveler gets cash back along with the ticket.
Besides money tips, Travelers Aid has^ some advice for people picking up their friends at the airport. Before leaving for the airport they should find out the airline, flight number, time of arrival, and the name of the airport in cities that have more than one.
And when making flight reservations, passengers should state their destinations clearly.
"We had a darling Irish woman land at Dulles recently,” Mrs. Ingram recalled, referring to Dulles International Airport in a suburb of Washington. "She spent a long time trying to call friends in ‘the city of Dulles' until we figured out she thought she was in Dallas.”
Because the airline reservation clerk’s misunderstanding had caused the error, the woman got a free ride to her real destination.
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