When filling in your visa application you will find a section where they ask you to provide your travel documentation. Many people assume that the embassies want to see their ticket confirmation and so, they proceed in Purchasing actual flight tickets, hotel accommodations, and travel medical insurance.
A flight reservation is also known as a flight itinerary. It is a dummy ticket that is fully acknowledged by the embassies as part of your travel plan. The flight reservation/flight itinerary includes all details of a flight and looks pretty much the same as a fully purchased flight ticket, but of course, it’s a dummy air ticket. It most cases it is mandatory that you provide a flight reservation for visa applications.
Embassies across the world requests for Transport Booking and its commonly referred with the below terminology
Transport booking
Travel Itinerary
Confirmed Flight itinerary
Confirmed flights
Dummy air ticket
Flight itinerary for visa application
Dummy flight ticket for Visa
Samples to Prove why Embassy asks for transport booking and accommodation
In Schengen visa application form you can see flight itinerary or flight reservation , hotel accomodation, travel insurance is asked specifically and they also provided a special note not to buy transport bookings until visa is approved.
Example: Traveler seeking Schengen visa from Denmark Embassy
Denmark schengenvisa application form asks in point 5 &6 to submit below documents which can be seen as highlighted in yellow.
Transport booking:
Note: Please do not purchase your transport bookings until a decision is made on your visa application
Accommodation:
Travel itinerary including hotel accommodation reservation or similar confirmation of accommodation for the entire trip.
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