Originally Posted by
Flyz
I have the return portion of a ticket from LHR-IND which I need to change the date on. It's an economy ticket (S). I now need to fly the same route on July 23 or 24, 2017. I have a very narrow window and little flexibility on the date.
The problem is that the system says no standard economy tickets for LHR-IND are available, at all. None for April, May, June, or July 2017. Only the more expensive flexible fares. Meanwhile, though, super-saver economy award seats are available. However, I don't want to use award miles, as I have this half-ticket that I've already paid for.
What gives here? What am I not understanding about why there are no economy seats? I need to make the change soon, as the flight I was originally booked on is coming up.
This happens all the time; lengthy periods in which there are no reasonable fares available ("lengthy" meaning a frustrating period that can be from a few days to several weeks) while fares are in a sort of holding pattern, waiting for another airline to blink and come up with a "sale" of sorts.
You've just got to be patient. Fare sales (or simply opening up the lower-fare buckets) will happen, and often without any advertisement.
And yes, this happens, just high-priced fares available, while concurrently there is wide-open availability of saver fares. The two really aren't connected in a direct way. I'm guilty of not carefully reading the original post and missing the obvious! Doh!
Originally Posted by
IAH-OIL-TRASH
If you do a search with only a one-way search LHR-IND, then that's all that shows up. Your fare class has a round-trip restriction probably, so none of the other fare classes show. Try your desired dates with a return IND-LHR sometime in the future and see if S shows up.
Edit: I just looked - they are there and bookable for 23rd. You'll have to pay a change fee plus any fare differential to switch. I assume your reservation is still active - did you try to change the flight online?
Ah, yes, exactly the scenario described! My bad.
Last edited by Mike Jacoubowsky; Nov 19, 2016 at 1:53 pm
Reason: Incomplete read on my part