Originally Posted by
christep
True, but if the sectors incurring the higher YQ have already been flown they you won't be charged it retrospectively, as I understand it.
What I don't understand is why there would be any increase anyway (except the LAX transit-> stopover issue). Haven't YQs been going down pretty continuously for the last year?
My limited experience with multiple changes to an AONE4 ex-JNB (now over a year ago) was that the once-lauded AA ATW desk has lost many experienced people (especially when their rate desk gets involved) or is working to some new set of procedures designed to make absolutely sure they don't ever underprice a fare or all the people are disgruntled. Or all the above.
I doubt they ever priced a change correctly; they ranged from letting me add
LAX-ORD-LAX at no charge because I wanted to fly the next day and the rate desk couldn't handle such a short turn-around, to not crediting me Cathay's YQ for HKG-DEL-HKG when I changed to HKG-DPS-HKG (and charging much higher YQ than Cathay would have charged for the flights outside xONEx.)