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Old Dec 17, 2018 | 1:27 pm
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Originally Posted by jsloan
You might be able to get UA to waive the change fee -- call and ask; you'll likely have better luck if it's ticketed as UA codes than LH codes -- but if you're trying to up-fare a single segment out of a longer itinerary, you're likely to run into an extremely high fare difference.
The flight does have UA codes but the 1K agent told me I could not buyup through UA. She did share with me that had heard from other pax that they have been successful calling LH.
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