Originally Posted by
cfischer
You probably could have cancelled for free at 23 hours and then booked a new ticket. Now it's going to be ugly to get this resolved. If you are close enough to an airport you might have a better chance if you go to a ticketing office and see what they are willing to do if you tell them your story. Did you pruchase your ticket directly on continental.com?
Yes, I know! I didn't know about the 24 hour policy! I only found out that night after talking to the second woman around midnight but was too groggy to fully process it. Very very mad at myself. But you know the awful first woman I talked to could have told me this instead of quoting $600, ugh. Actually, the SECOND woman could have suggested this too. Because the fare for buying the flight to NYC instead of LAX was only $100 more than I originally paid on Kayak.
I could try that... It's about 1 1/2 hour subway ride to the closest airport... Yes, I got it on continental.com.