Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
In General and EK specifically
For instance, there are fares which state things such as
Code:
THE CHANGE FEE APPLIES PER FARE COMPONENT. WHEN
MORE THAN ONE FARE COMPONENT IS CHANGED THE
HIGHEST PENALTY OF ANY OF THE CHANGED FARE
COMPONENTS WILL APPLY."THE CHANGE FEE APPLIES PER FARE COMPONENT."
I can have a fare where one direction has no change penalty and the other has one; when changing a flight on the direction where no change fee applies, no charge is applied - the rules of the other fare componant do not take precedence
There are fares sold on airlines which do have a rule stating that the most restrictive rule applies to whole itinerary, but this is not always the case
The only way to be sure is to read the rules
It wouldn't make sense to have such a restriction on routes where purchasing 2 singles would actually be a smidgen cheaper than buying a return anyway
I actually had this situation you mentioned: I had a Y outbound and a W inbound flight, made changes, and the Y outbound was free to make unlimited changes to dates and times and the inbound cost me 50 GBP.
There is one tell tale method in the fare conditions to know whether you have rules that apply to the whole itinerary - if the fare conditions are really long and duplicate themselves - the first lot of them apply to the outbound and the second the inbound!