Originally Posted by
translatejapan
I guess I learned something the hard way... Had no idea such tickets existed.
I just talked to a USA help person, who said that all the terms and conditions are laid out when you purchase.
My confirmation email only says "You may have purchased a 'special fare.'"
I got burned by this exact same thing on a CPH-RDU roundtrip about 10 years ago. This was way before basic economy or any of the cheap TATL LCCs were around, I too had no idea such a restrictive fare existed. At that point it turned out that the lowest fare code (either O or N, don't remember) on ex-Denmark fares didn't allow any changes at all. Live and learn.
It was funny, in my example the original ticket was around $900, and the change fee and fare difference for the potential change (to move to exact same flight 1 day earlier) was around an extra $1000 that AA wouldn't take from me. I flew on the original ticket and AA missed out on an extra $1k of revenue.