Originally Posted by
summerrose
When I initially called customer services, they told me the cost of changing the date of flight would be around £90, which was more than I'd paid for the flight in the first place.
That's not the right way to look at it.
If you change your current ticket (let's call it ticket 1) to the date you actually want, you'll have to pay the change fee plus any difference in fare. The total of the original cost of ticket 1, plus the change fee, plus any difference in fare, will add up to some number - let's call it £X.
If you don't use ticket 1, you'll have to buy a new ticket for the actual date on which you want to fly (let's call that ticket 2). Then you will have paid the original cost of ticket 1, plus the cost of ticket 2 - let's call it £Y.
It's very likely that £X will be less than £Y.
Or, in other words, if you refuse to change your current ticket and just throw it away, you're probably throwing away more money than you need to.