Do airports accept prepaid Visa cards?

You may think you need a credit card to purchase an airline ticket. But a debit or prepaid card will work just as well. And your options may even expand to cash and checks if you book your flight through a travel agent or if you purchase your ticket at an airport ticket counter.



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It's a bank debit card as any other. Usually on flights they save the data to process later and may refuse prepaid card because they are afraid of someone using a card without balance and only finding it later when processing the transaction.

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Yes you can, but hotels will verify that your card has sufficient funds to pay an estimated bill for your stay. That amount will be “held” in your account, making it unavailable for other purchases.

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Regulation of Reloadable Visa Prepaid Cards A foreign issued card cannot be loaded in the US or vice versa. Cardholder data is generally not collected on non-reloadable card programs like Visa Gift, but these cards cannot be reloaded and do not allow cash access.

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