Originally Posted by
ellinj
One clarification its the credit amount + $200, you can't use the credit to cover the change fee.
so if you have a $500 credit and are buying a $300 ticket, it won't be a wash. you would still owe the change fee.
Also note that the fare and the change fee show up as two different charges on your card when making a change to a non refundable ticket. Meaning you have a $400 flight and you change to a $1000 flight (for whatever reason, just using numbers that are far apart), then there will be a $600 ticket purchase charge and a $200 change fee charge on your card. This is significant because if you have a card that reimburses the change fee (Amex plat, RC Visa, etc.) then you can have that $200 reimbursed to you. Made this mistake the other day and I'm fighting with US accounts receivables to try to change the charge to my amex from my US mastercard.
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