Originally Posted by
Crampedin13A
It was incredible the agent said not to worry, said there were seats available on the next flight in 3 hours from YYZ-LHR asked me for my dates and gave me probably the cheapest discounted WT fare I'd ever heard of. I asked what paperwork they required and she said none would be required.
You don't ever forget it when an airline helps you out.
Having said that, though, much does depend on what bookings look like anyway. Today, it's much more common to find that even the cheapest economy fares require no advance purchase (with revenue/yield management done just by booking class manipulation), and also that even the cheapest economy fares have a degree of flexibility for the return.
So, for example, if you had to fly to HKG tomorrow, you can't currently buy any ticket on BA and elsewhere it would have to be business class. But you could fly BA to BKK in V class and DXB in N class without having to ask for any favours.