Originally Posted by
jsloan
In practice, though, you may rather have a conversation with your employer about its principles. You can buy a nonrefundable ticket on the route through MNL for $768, with a $100 change fee. Are you cancelling half of your flights?
I'm a government employee, no conversation I have with them is going to change their policy. In the 41 flights I've had so far this year, only 2 have been changed and at that they were less than 24 hour shifts. Really makes me question tax dollar allocation when I can take a $220 UA flight to MNL and a $200 Cebu Pacific flight to DPS and be there in almost half the time.
It also seems like I should take a crash course in using ExpertFlyer as a booking tool, sounds like it may be a bit more comprehensive than just notifying me when a window seat opens up.
I appreciate all your input and teaching more about the fare code/booking process, it's crazy that you can tell that I have a stateside issued credit card simply because of the flight prices that United gives me.