How to book a Schengen visa ticket. How to make an air ticket reservation for a visa without prepayment or with minimal losses

To the country where you need a visa. Instructions on how to book a ticket without paying for a visa to solve this problem.

Often there are situations when travelers need a booked air ticket, but there is no way to pay for it (there is no certainty that they will give a visa, they do not need a return ticket, etc.). In this case, the instruction on how to book a ticket without payment, which was written by travelers from the samsebecolumb project, will come in handy.

Many airlines and agents allow you to book a ticket only for a day. This is very small and this option is not suitable for us. We need at least 5 days (so that in case of verification by the company or the consulate, our ticket is in the system as confirmed).

But how to make it so that in the booking systems it is displayed as confirmed and paid! After all, many companies and consulates require paid

In this case, two sites will come to our aid:

After any booking or complete purchase of tickets, hotel reservations, car reservations, we can check our reservation, ticket number, departure time and various details in global distribution systems ( GDS) - international computer reservation systems where data is stored.

Booking sites (booking anything) work with different systems: Amadeus, Galileo, Saber, Worldspan. And depending on this, bookings from agent sites can be checked on different GDS by booking number.

  • Bookings with Amadeus can be checked at checkmytrip.com
  • Reservations at Galileo can be checked at Viewtrip.com
  • Bookings in Saber can be checked at

Typically, booking sites indicate which system this particular company works with. Most commonly used are Amadeus and Galileo. But if you did not find the name of the system, enter the reservation number on each of them and check.

So, step by step instructions on how to book a ticket without paying for a visa:

    • Let's go to the site Agent.ru
    • Enter the city of departure and the city of arrival (in this case, Bangkok - Kyiv). If we need a one-way ticket, uncheck the “and back” box. Choose the date of the flight. Do not forget to indicate the number of passengers if you need more than 1 ticket (but it is better to make a separate reservation for each)
    • Select a flight to book. Unfortunately, not all companies can provide the maximum long-term booking, the longest period is up to 10 days. This is great for us. You can choose different companies by trial method and find out. which of them offers to keep the reservation for how long. Better try to find flights UIA, Emirates(provide reservations up to 10 days). We do not pay attention to the price and flight time, because we are not going to fly on this ticket.

    • We enter the email to which our reservation will be sent, the names of the passengers, the passport number. passport validity period, phone number and consent.

    • Next, we will offer insurance. And we keep ordering.

  • In the next step, a window appears with the code of our armor. We copy it and leave the site at this stage

Hello! Today I will tell you how to book a plane ticket without paying. When might it be needed?

- For example, for a visa. In the list of documents for Schengen countries there is an item: air tickets. When we applied for a visa to China in Hanoi, we also booked air tickets without payment.

Enter the place of departure and destination. Just for example, we fly from our native Omsk to Bangkok, there on February 28, back on March 14. Click "Find".

2. A list of all available options is displayed. Don't look at the price, you don't have to pay anything anyway. It is important to choose a decent airline, they usually give you the opportunity to defer payment for a certain period. It can be Emirates, Etihad, Korean Air, or you can google for the desired airline.

3. We select the desired flight - then we get to the checkout page. It is necessary to enter E-mail, first name, last name, date of birth, document number, citizenship and passport expiration date. Leave the phone number below and put the kryzhik in the "Agree" column.

4. It is proposed to take out insurance, it is not needed, uncheck the box and click "Place an order".

5 . Ready! Now we have a six-digit armor code (PNR) at our disposal. In total, we have a little more than 3 days. You don't need to pay anything!

6. We go to the site and drive a six-digit PNR code and last name into the fields. As you can see, the reservation is confirmed, which is written in green.

7 . Click on the "Print" button, such a page is issued, on which the inscription "Confirmed" proudly flaunts. Feel free to print it out and carry it to the consulate, if required.

8 . In addition, a reminder is also sent to the mail. It is indicated that the airline may unilaterally reduce the payment period for the order. Therefore, I recommend making an unpaid air ticket reservation as early as possible, and not on the eve of going to the consulate, for example.

The reservation will then be canceled automatically, or it can be canceled manually. Thus, you do not even shine with your bank card details, while an unpaid reservation on hand is a beauty!

A little more about how this whole system works. The fact is that all bookings go through global distribution systems. The main ones are Amadeus, Galileo, Saber. All air ticket operators are required to know them like the back of their hand. The Agent.ru site works just through Amadeus.

- used to check bookings in Amadeus.
— to check bookings in the Galileo system.
— to check bookings in the Saber system.

What to do if the reservation does not break through?

  • If your booking is not detected through checkmytrip, then try using the other two sites to find your booking.
  • It happens that the system is simply stupid or has failed, in which case you will have to repeat everything again.
  • I read that some people get a 5-digit, not a 6-digit code. In this case, it is recommended to go to the website of the airline whose flights you booked and check your reservation there.
  • We simply canceled the next day, although it was indicated, as in the example, about 3 days. Please try again or select a different airline when booking.

We have such a way, along with an unpaid hotel reservation from booking, completely rolled in (Vietnam) - they gave a visa, though only for two weeks, although the reservations were for a month. This once again suggests that no one will give a 100% guarantee of success. After all, in the final analysis, the consul issues a visa, and this is a living person.

For Schengen, you need to keep the reservation at least 7 days, so it is more likely that when checking at the consulate, your tickets will be beaten in booking systems.

Good luck with your trips to the consulates and memorable trips, friends!

Frequently asked question - is it possible to book a ticket now and pay later? We answer - it is possible. But it is important to know a few subtleties that will help you find such tickets and get such a service for free.

Usually, there are two reasons for booking air tickets without payment:

  • There was no bank card at hand or not enough funds, but I want to fix a ticket at a low price.
  • Air tickets are needed to apply for a visa, but there is no absolute certainty that the consulate will approve the application.

In these cases, there are two ways to book tickets without payment.

1. Booking on the airline's website

Many airlines are sympathetic to the need for deferred payment when booking. For example, the largest European carrier Lufthansa provides two days to pay for the reservation. United Americans are ready to hold your reservation for a whole week, and Korean Air for up to ten days! It is important to remember that the company can unilaterally reduce the time to pay for the reservation. They will immediately notify you of this by e-mail or phone, so please provide real data when booking. Be sure to read all the terms of the deferred payment. Some airlines reserve the right to charge small fines if you fail to pay for your booking on time.

2. Booking on the website of ticket agencies

This option is the most common, because. the agency can provide a deferred payment service for tickets for those airlines that do not have such an opportunity themselves. The agent.ru service is popular among experienced travelers, where you can book tickets without payment for a period of 12 to 72 hours. Time directly depends on the date of departure. When booking tickets for the coming days, you should not hope that you will be given more than a day to pay. But when searching a few months before departure, you can easily find booking options for several days.

Advice: if you need a paper copy to apply for a visa, booking verification services will help.

A lot of people contact me with a request to book a hotel accommodation without payment or plane tickets.

Hotel reservations are asked when applying for visas, and booked tickets when flying to those countries where they are often not allowed without a return ticket, but there may be other reasons for providing these reservations.

How to book accommodation on your own without paying?

1. Go to the booking site: booking.com

2. Choose a hotel with FREE CANCELLATION(as in the screenshot) in the country of the planned trip. Let's say Indonesia, the island of Bali.

3. We fill in all the necessary personal data correctly online, including entering all the data of our valid bank card to confirm the booking.

4. We go to the e-mail, open the letter with the reservation and print out the version of the confirmed reservation that we need: in English or Russian.

Reservations also do not need to be printed if you do not plan to show it when applying for a visa. You can get a reservation directly to your phone.

How to book flights on your own without paying?

Most of the articles that talk about how to book a ticket without paying are no longer relevant.

The fact is that most of the articles referred to the site for booking air tickets: agent.ru, with which you could book a ticket for 9 days without payment and then print a confirmation of the booked ticket on the sites www.checkmytrip.comor www.myairlines.ru/.

Now (since 2018), agent.ru does not send the reservation code when booking air tickets, which means that it will not be possible to print a confirmation of booked air tickets without payment.

Easy and fast way

At the moment, I found one site for booking air tickets - euroavia.ru, which offers the service "temporary air ticket for obtaining a Schengen or other visa or to show it to border control."This service costs 300 rubles.

In my opinion, it is very convenient to use this service, because it saves time - we do not need to go to 2 sites to get confirmation of booked tickets, as it was before.

Below is a video instruction of this method.

We only need:

  1. Book the required flight ticket(create an order) on the euroavia.ru website - select the desired dates, flight and enter your passport details, click "book";
  2. Next, select and pay for the service of temporary air tickets, called "Visa Booking Confirmation";
  3. Open your email to print the completed booked flights.

I myself use this service and my friends are travelers! In practice, very successful.

Free way (not tested)

Also, there is a free way to book flights - this is through the official websites of airlines.

Airlines such as Lufthansa, Emirates, Korean Airlines, Hong Kong Airlines, United can hold a booking without payment for several days.

True, it is not known how long the reservation we need will last. This should be clarified with the representatives of the airline or read the booking conditions on the websites of the airlines.

The airlines may, if necessary, cancel our booking without payment at any time they deem necessary. Therefore, if you are going to purchase a booked ticket, you need to do this as soon as possible after booking.

After we found the necessary airline and booked the tickets we needed with it. We should receive a confirmation of air tickets - a reservation code - by mail.

Often, novice travelers are frightened by the requirements of visa centers, the worst of them is the need to have paid tickets. What if the visa is not approved? Refunds are not possible on the most favorable airline fares. There is a very simple and free solution! In fact, you do not need to pay for tickets.

It is enough just to book them and provide a copy of the reservation to the visa center or consulate. No one "under the microscope" will look at your reservation. Practice shows that a visa can be obtained even with completely fictitious data for booking an air ticket, but only on condition that the rest of the documents are in perfect order.

Which airline is better to book flights for a visa? It is not so important. Now absolutely all major airlines can hold tickets for up to 24 hours, this is quite enough to provide this reservation to the visa center or consulate.

Reservation authentication occurs only at the time of receipt of documents. It is not at all scary if it expires the next day.

But just booking a ticket is not enough., we will talk about this in detail later.

However, if you live in a city where there is no visa center you are interested in, booking a day may not be enough. What to do in this case? Book tickets with an airline that gives you more time to pay. We conducted a study and found out that Turkish Airlines has the best ratio of maximum booking period and city coverage. They keep the reservation up to 72 hours and fly to absolutely all European countries.

If the visa application center or consulate approves the visa, you are not required to fly with the airline Turkish Airlines. You can choose any other, whose rates and conditions you like more.

What does it look like?

The booking for Turkish Airlines flights looks like this:

If you are booking with another airline, the form will look completely different, make sure it includes the following information:

  • Booking number;
  • full name of passengers;
  • City and airport of departure;
  • City and airport of arrival;
  • Departure date;
  • Ticket price.

The rest of the data has no meaning for the visa center.

How to make a reservation?

This procedure has two stages. Don't be intimidated by this huge list of activities, in fact, it will take no more than 10 minutes.

Do not close the ticket booking page until you have completely completed all the steps in our instructions.

Ticket booking:

  • Go to the Turkish Airlines website;
  • "From": Select the city from which you plan to travel;
  • "Where": Select a major city of the country whose visa you want to obtain;
    • For example: if you want a Spanish visa, enter "Madrid" or "Barcelona".
  • "Dates": be sure to book a round-trip ticket.
    • Important! Visa processing can take up to 7 business days, so book your tickets ahead of time.
  • Select the class of flight and the number of passengers, click on the red arrow;
  • The flight selection page will open. Select any of them, click on the "Select Flight" button, and then on "Continue".
  • A standard form for issuing an air ticket will open.
  • "Appeal": this is how the airline finds out the gender of the passenger.
  • Name, Surname: you must enter this data in Latin
    • For example: not Ivan Ivanov, but Ivan Ivanov.
  • Enter your date of birth, your phone number and e-mail. This is mandatory, the data on the ticket must be reliable.
  • Click on the "Proceed to payment" button.
  • Double-check your data again, and if everything is correct, then select the item “Check in the flight and pay later” at the bottom of the page.
  • Check the box to confirm that you have read the terms and conditions, click on the "Continue" button.

Unfortunately, the received forms cannot be submitted to the consulate, because they clearly say “waiting for payment”.

Now let's form the tickets in such a way that this inscription does not exist.

Now open this site: http://keyflight.io/. Do not be intimidated by its ascetic design. Fill in the fields on the right side of the site using the data that you received after booking a ticket with Turkish Airlines.

As an example, we will show how to fill in the data for passenger Ivan Ivanov when departing from Moscow (Vnukovo) to Madrid on 08/14/2018 at 03:10.


The first ticket is ready. Save it by clicking on the "Download PDF" button at the top of the screen. Now repeat the second part of the procedure, specifying the return ticket details.

Now, we have a full-fledged confirmed reservation, which will be accepted at any visa center. There is no need to be afraid that this confirmation looks completely different from what you are used to, the fact is that each airline has its own form, and in addition to them, countless check-in services issue their forms.


The only thing that is really important is that this document will contain data that the visa center employee can check, and Turkish Airlines will confirm that the reservation exists. At least for 72 hours while it is valid.

For a visa to Spain

Obtaining a visa for Spain is a relatively simple task, tourism is very important for this country, so be sure that claims will only arise for your flight booking if there are suspicions about the rest of your documents.

Airlines with long booking times flying to Spain:

  • Turkish Airlines(72 hours or more);
  • Lufthansa(24 hours or more);
  • Aeroflot(24 hours);

The largest airports in Spain for booking flights:

  • Barcelona(BCN);
  • Madrid(MAD);
  • Valencia(VLC);
  • Malaga(AGP);

Priority options are Barcelona and Madrid, as they are very popular with tourists, and there will be no reason for checks at the consulate or visa center.

Fictitious booking

Even though the procedure for making a reservation is quite simple, there may be a situation where even 72 hours of the provided reservation will not be enough. Even from such a difficult situation there is a way out.

It is enough just to generate a ticket on this site: http://keyflight.io/. You can find the instructions for filling out above, but you have to come up with the data for the tickets, and we will help you and indicate the airport codes for the most popular tourist destinations in Europe:

Departing Airport (departure airport):

  • Vnukovo(Moscow): VKO (MOSCOW).
  • Domodedovo(Moscow): DME (MOSCOW).
  • Sheremetyevo(Moscow): SVO (MOSCOW).
  • Pulkovo(St. Petersburg): LED (ST. PETERSBURG).
  • Koltsovo(Yekaterinburg): SVX (YEKATERINBURG).
  • Tolmachevo(Novosibirsk): OVM (NOVOSIBIRSK).

Arrival Airport (arrival airport):

  • Prague(Czech Republic): PRG (PRAGUE).
  • Berlin(Berlin) : SFX (BERLIN).
  • Madrid(Spain):MAD (MADRID).
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands): AMS (AMSTERDAM).
  • Paris(France): CDG (PARIS).
  • Rome(Italy): CIA (ROME).
  • Athens(Greece): ATH (ATHENS).
  • Lisbon(Portugal): LIS (LISBON).
  • London(UK): LHR (LONDON).

Think of the date and time of departure, booking code (6 characters) and ticket price yourself.

We strongly discourage using this method if it is possible to book tickets with the airline. The fact is that if the rest of your documents do not give the visa center employee confidence that you will voluntarily leave the country on time, he may request the authenticity of your reservation data, and if it does not pass the check, the visa will be denied. The probability of this is extremely small, but be sure to keep in mind.

Counterfeiting an airline reservation is not punishable by law.

For a visa to Italy

Getting a visa to Italy is a little more difficult than to Spain, but statistics show that the Italian consulate is loyal to visa applicants from Russia. Which airline and city of arrival to choose for booking?

Most popular cities:

  • Rome (CIA);
  • Turin (TRN);
  • Palermo (PMO);
  • Venice (VCE).

All these 4 destinations are very popular among tourists, so there is no difference between them for the visa center. Choose any.

Watch the video how to book a ticket for a visa:

When faced with the need to obtain a visa, you have 2 options: spend money on air tickets and hope that the visa center will approve your application, or simply use our recommendations and, in case of refusal, do not lose a penny. Just follow the instructions and you will succeed!

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