Originally Posted by
justsawaufo
For future reference, try booking a refundable fare first, then check it to a non-refundable after it gets ticketed. it may hold the original refundable fare rules.
It won't. As soon as you change to a non-refundable fare, it becomes non-refundable.
The people who write the airline fare rules are well aware that people will try to evade them. They're written to make that difficult / impossible. If it were as easy as making a simple change, everyone would just do that whenever they needed a refund, and the whole concept of refundable vs. non-refundable fares would go away.
