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Old Nov 11, 2008 | 8:43 am
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Originally Posted by troyb
Hi,

I need to purchase all of my airfare through my corporate travel agent. There's a flight I want to get on that has the H fare for about $80 less than the R fare. I'd like to purchase the H from my TA and then call CO and pay the difference out of pocket to the R fare.

Will CO let me do this without charging additional fees? If I need to refund the ticket, will the costs be allocated back to the proper cards (i.e., if I use a corporate and personal card for each charge)?
I have done this by alerting an agent before I purchased the ticket through the agency, and then they went ahead and did the change for no charge immediately after I bought it.

I believe others have had success with this by changing the fare class within the 24-hour refund window.
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