50% Discounts for Senior Flights and other activities

You must obtain the discount in person at a ticketing office or in person. It was the same way in Colombia when I received a government discount. In the United States you gave them a corporate code and if they wanted to verify eligibility they would do it randomly. Unfortunately, in South America everything is like this - in person, no faith in others.

And yes, it needs to be booked directly through AA. I highly doubt you are going to be able to get the discount through Expedia. You should have 72 hours to cancel your ticket if it is not too late.




Matt V. - Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil
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Are you talking about senior discount over 65 yrs old with cedular card when booking air line ticket?  i thought it was only with a certain ecuadorian air line no other?   and you could be only traveling round trip on ecuadorian air line true to get discount? 
All bills at moment in ecuador have to be paid in person water, electric some can be taken out of savings account some.  they are changing slowly...

I will be interestered [i][/i]to see if any seniors write in to tell us they have used their discount and bought one ticket  to america on what air line and if on phone or in cuenca
In person???????
WAIT TO SEE

smitty88,

This topic was already discussed and answered. See below:

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=297239





Matt V. - Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil
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Smitty88 quitto interesting and in person plus you used an AA card right????
Supposedly this is a law but everyone is having difficulty with it anyone else used it with only a cedula card over 65 yrs old you dont have to be ecudoriania<<<<<<
In cuenca
In person or on phone
What air line lan and america
Please respond so we know it has worked and where????

No problem if you use a travel agent, that's what they're paid to do and they know the ins and outs of acquiring the 50%. FYI, if AA is doing this it is the only USA line I;ve heard of that does. It maybe that to use Ecuadorian gateways they must to comply with regulations?? Otherwise Tapa, Lan and several other SA lines will extend the discount if it originates and terminates in Ecuador.

USE an agent and avoid the lost time and frustrations.

As I said above,       "I recently automatically got the discount when I bought round trip tickets UIO-LAX through Expedia." That means that I GOT the discount, although I am not confident for the future.

Some participants do not seem able to understand simple English. Yes, there was a pvs discussion, with inept and wrong replies. I quoted both the English and Spanish versions of the law.

As I thought was clear I said, "I confirmed the fact that legal Ecuadorian residents over 65 (with cedula) are entitled to 50% discounts for all flights on all airlines (excluding taxes and fees) beginning and ending in Ecuador (in person) at both the LAN and American Airlines offices in Quito. " I do not know how to make it any clearer.

No I do not have an AA card, and I DID get the discount, and it WAS through Expedia on October 4th UIO-LAX-UIO on TACA, (although I am not confident Expedia will be consistent). Although I did also get the discount on a RT flight to Manta recently, the amount saved was small as the basic price is low - I just wanted to test it.

I am really looking for people's ACTUAL  experiences, not ever more uninformed opinion.