Originally Posted by
irishguy28
Flexible tickets are charged at a higher rate, because this was an add-on.
Come on... Even most of the bottom-low fares are flexible. You can rebook them if you pay a fee. No need to buy a higher fare for that.
Only very expensive fares are refundable now. And how many people actually refund tickets? That must be in the range of <5%. Rebooking is probably in the range of 10-20%.
As such we're actually talking about a non-issue for the airline. Either continue as is and make sure that none of the <0.01% of non-refundable cancellations taken to court go higher than "Landgericht", or find some other way to recoup some money from cancellations.
HTB.