Originally Posted by
Jay00848
I have had luck doing what you wanted. Basically I had work by the new ticket on delta metal and then called the diamond desk and explained the situation and that I needed them to cancel out the first flight. They made the one time exception. So if you get the correct a gent and you are respectful/ nice it usually works out.
I've done this as a PM. For work reasons, I ended up needing to drive from GSP to ATL, instead of driving. I was able to keep my ATL - MKE segment on a multi leg trip.
I'm not 100% certain - this was 6 months ago - but I'm pretty sure I didn't have to pay a change fee.