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Old Oct 30, 2017 | 9:00 am
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Originally Posted by Kacee
You're overthinking this. Any voluntary change to your itinerary requires payment of the $240 change fee (unless necessitated by a schedule change of 30 minutes or more).
Right. "Reissue," as used in this context, is a generic term that includes revalidation as well. Changing the dates of a flight, without changing the routing, does not require the ticket to be reissued -- merely revalidated -- but does incur a change fee. Except for the amount, which makes me think that this fare is for a foreign market, since change fees are set by competitive pressure on a market-by-market basis, this is essentially boilerplate text.

As Kacee notes, the "schedule change" clause refers to a change on UA's part, not the customer's. If UA changes the flight schedule dramatically, that clause waives the fee for changing the itinerary and reissuing/revalidating the ticket.
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