Originally Posted by
innesst
Can anyone, with a straight face, justify the practice of changing or even a person paying twice as much to get the option of obtaining a refund (and even then needing to pay an additional fee)? You would need to cancel half your flights to make this worth it. And unless the flight will be sold out, it's almost always still cheaper to just buy a walk-up.
It's pointless to apply what you consider to be "logic" to airline fare pricing. The rules and practices are what they are, and if you want to fly, you play by the airlines' rules.