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Airlines to extend traveler voucher expiration dates

Posted at 12:17 PM, Mar 18, 2021
and last updated 2021-03-18 16:32:58-04

Travelers are sitting on $10 billion in unused vouchers.

Many people had to postpone or cancel flights since the pandemic began and that prompted major U.S. airlines to extend voucher expiration dates to the end of this year or next.

A travel industry expert says a lot of unused credits and tickets fall through the cracks with one reason being that the process of redeeming a credit can be difficult.