Originally Posted by
americanindian
Here is my situation.
I have a Continental $900 ticket that i didn't use last year, basically as a voucher. I have to book before Sept 15th 2011. I will have to $250 for change flights and cant use it for anyone else or hotels or anything other than a flt tkt. I don't want this to go waste even if I have to pay $250 extra.
Just wanted to throw this out there for OP consideration: if you have a AMEX Platinum card, that change fee might be a reimbursable expense under the $200 airline credit benefit.
Here are two threads with more info on that:
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