Originally Posted by
mitchellh
Hm, from my credit card statement from my most recent cancellation [
specific data re ticketing edited by Moderator for member privacy] (I cancelled a segment on the 4th) was charged $200, normal chg fee. Ideas?
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I repeat
There is no fee to cancel a flight, there is a fee to use the flight credit for another flight.
you may consider it semantics, but it is a correct statement - there are cases where the difference matters.
Originally Posted by
mitchellh
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As for buying tickets closer to the date: I generally actually don't know about changes in schedules until less than a week in advance. In my case this wouldn't help much. :-\
You need to figure your cost of changes on the average. If you are changing a advance ticket on average twice, buying last minutes OW tickets are cheaper -- you are even approaching costs of changeable fares. If you are occasionally changing, less than 1 times per ticket than what you are doing is probably the cheapest, only you have that data.