Originally Posted by
kop84
Changing your outbound flight also eliminates your advance purchase. Essentially you are buying a straight walk up F fare and it will cause your return to be repriced as well.
$6K is a crazy amount of money, but maybe DL doesn't want to sell just MSP DFW, or perhaps they know some big corporate client often needs to fly that route last minute.
I could buy a whole new RT F ticket for less then changing my original one!
Originally Posted by
ijgordon
I mean, it looks to me like OP was trying to price a ticket less than 30 minutes before departure (if my math is right...). Not sure of DL's policy, but often online purchases require 2 hours and at the airport the ticketing (and check-in) deadline is 30 minutes. So this may just be a bogus fare that wouldn't process through. But yes, you're right it would be a complete reprice of the itinerary (plus the change fee!).
I actually quoted it yesterday (Wednesday) and took the screenshot then, didnt get around to posting till today, so roughly 24 hours prior to the possible new departure.