Originally Posted by
alphaod
..Regardless to what you feel about the situation, I am unapologetic that I found it necessary to pay for an one-way fare when I needed to return home. Perhaps you are blessed with superior language skills or the ability to get in touch with someone who could have helped you in that situation, but some of us common folk can only communicate in one language and when encountering people who are not versed in said language, I had to muster up a solution I could think of. If you consider the ability to afford a last minute one-way fare to be some sort of entitlement, so be it.
My apologies for the one harsh comment.
But I still believe that you could have more effort - on a B fare changes are a cinch and free of charge. So using VOPI to get through to any Amex office should have done the trick.