Flight Itinerary
A full schedule on headed paper. No airline reference behind it, and it does not claim one.
£12.00 per person
For visa applications
A dummy flight ticket with a verifiable PNR.
It is a real airline reservation.
“Dummy ticket” is what applicants call it. What you receive is a reservation made with a real airline, held in the names on your passports, with the fare unpaid. It carries a booking reference that anyone assessing your application can look up.
A reference you can look up
On a verifiable reservation the booking sits in the airline's own system. The reference and the date it expires are printed on the document.
Real airlines and schedules
Built from flights the airline is running on your route. No invented flight numbers.
Names as the passport has them
Written exactly as they appear on the passport, including middle names.
Sent to you by email
A PDF to the address you order with. You can download it again from Manage my booking.
Only one of the two carries a PNR.
Both are built from real flights. They differ in one line on the document.
Verifiable Flight Reservation
Carries a real airline reference an assessor can look up, held for a limited window.
£22.00 per person
Real Flight Ticket
The flight itself, issued by the airline. Their refund terms, not ours.
The airline’s fare, plus our fee
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If your appointment asks for a booking somebody can check, choose the verifiable flight reservation. If it asks to see an intended route, the flight itinerary is the cheaper document, and it never fails because there is nothing to hold.
Nothing here guarantees visa approval, entry, or acceptance by an embassy, airline or border authority. Requirements are set by the authority assessing your application and can change, so check yours with them directly. Read the product disclaimer.
What is a dummy flight ticket?
The term has no official meaning. No airline, consulate or visa centre uses it. It is what applicants started calling a booking they had not paid for. The name stuck because it describes the problem: you are asked to show your travel plans before you are willing to buy a ticket you might never be able to use.
What sits behind the term is ordinary. An airline holds a seat in your name for a limited period without taking the fare. That is a reservation. It is a normal part of how airline booking works, and it is what several Schengen consulates tell applicants to bring.
It is not a ticket. The fare is unpaid and nobody can board on it. A document that claims otherwise is a forgery, not a reservation. It is not really a “dummy” either. A reservation either exists in an airline’s system or it does not, and one that does not is a PDF somebody typed.
What is a verifiable PNR?
PNR stands for Passenger Name Record. It is the airline’s own file for a booking, identified by a short reference of the kind printed on any boarding pass. It belongs to the airline. It is not something a document carries on its own, and not something anybody else can issue.
A PNR is verifiable when that record exists, so somebody holding the reference and a passenger surname can look it up on the airline’s own website and see the same flights printed on your document. There is no register of approved documents and no badge anyone can award. A reference either works at the airline or it does not.
That is why only one of our two documents has one, and why the other says plainly that it has none. What a verifiable PNR is covers it in more detail.
Is a dummy ticket legal?
A reservation is legal. A forged ticket is not. They are different documents.
Holding a seat without paying for it is ordinary. Airlines have always allowed bookings to be held unpaid for a period, and travel agents have used that for decades. There is nothing to hide in it, which is why our reservation carries the airline’s own reference and invites anyone to check it.
The problem is a document that lies about itself. A PDF built to look like a paid ticket when no booking exists is a forgery, and handing one to a visa authority is fraud. It is also easy to catch. The assessor types the reference into the airline’s website and finds nothing.
What matters is whether the document says truthfully what it is. Ours states on its face that it is a reservation, that the fare is unpaid, and that it does not allow anyone to board. Several Schengen consulates ask for a reservation in writing, and the EU Visa Code lists a document showing your envisaged travel plans among the things an application may be asked for.
This is not legal advice, and we do not decide what your authority accepts. Read their published checklist and follow it.
How verification works.
Four steps. You can do the last one yourself, before you hand the document in.
- 01
Order the reservation
Enter your route, your dates, and the names as printed on the passports.
- 02
A seat is held, unpaid
A reservation is created with the airline. The airline issues its own booking reference and sets how long it lasts, usually between 48 hours and two weeks.
- 03
The document arrives
A PDF by email, showing the flights, the names, the reference, and the date it expires.
- 04
Anyone can look it up
Enter the reference and a passenger surname on the airline's own booking page.
This applies to the verifiable reservation only. A flight itinerary has no reference to check, and the document says so on its face. How to verify a flight reservation goes through it screen by screen.
How long a reservation lasts
The airline sets the deadline, not us, and it is printed on the document. In practice it runs from about 48 hours up to about two weeks, depending on the airline and how far ahead your flight is. Flights further out usually hold longer.
Time it to your appointment. A short hold ordered weeks early can expire before anybody looks at it, and an expired reference will not resolve on the airline’s site. You will see the exact date on the document when it arrives. If your appointment moves and the hold has run out, order again rather than hoping the old one still works.
A flight itinerary has no deadline, because nothing is held. The flights on it are real and scheduled, so it does not expire, but it never carries a reference to check.
Different applications ask for different things.
Only one of these routes puts the requirement in writing.
- Schengen visaFour consulates, quoted from their own checklists.Read this
- Netherlands visaThe plainest sentence any consulate writes on this.Read this
- Spain visaThe consulate that tells you not to buy the ticket.Read this
- Italy visaRound trip and a full itinerary, both asked for.Read this
- UK visit visaWhat the Home Office asks for, and what it does not.Read this
- US visaWhat the interview covers, and what it does not.Read this
- Canada visitor visaWhat the checklist asks for, and what it leaves to you.Read this
Applying somewhere else? Flight reservation for a visa application covers what to look for on any checklist.
Questions people ask first.
The ones that come up before an order.
It is what applicants call a flight reservation. A booking is held in your name with the fare unpaid, and you use it to show your intended travel while an application is decided. The flights are real ones the airline is running, and on a Verifiable Flight Reservation the booking reference is real as well. It is not a ticket and it does not allow anyone to board.
Start with a route.
Everything else follows from it.