Originally Posted by
Often1
It is far from odd. I don't know any carrier which does not include this in its COC other than on departures from Germany, were German law requires that the carrier offer a ticket without the requirement. Those tickets tend to be vastly more expensive. Spain is leaning that way too, but it won't likely be cheap.
Bottom line is that if you choose to purchase a discounted ticket with a penalty for changes and you make a change, you then pay the change fee and pay any fare difference for the new ticket.
A recent court case (i.e. Dec 2018) in Germany has shown that flights in
Germany can't have this type of language. Perhaps LH will appeal the decision to the ECJ and hopefully lose that appeal forcing this practice to stop!
Originally Posted by
RLPYYC
I told my partner (the reason behind the change...) that if I was one segment short I was going to make her pay for my mileage run...I was in fact one short and she did pay for me to be the only passenger on a YYC-Red Deer flight!
also fun story...crossing the border in a rental vehicle when you were scheduled to fly across made for an interesting conversation in the nexus lane with the nice border officer...
Partners like that are hard to come by...they're a keeper
Most people I talk to IRL who are not avgeeks or lurkers of the forum always give me odd looks when I explain to them the itineraries I put together. "Wait, so you're flying to SIN via YYZ, ORD, NRT instead of just taking the non-stop from LHR to SIN! Why would you ever want to do that?!" When I explain how the fare was cheaper, resulted in substantially higher BIS and access to the NH lounge at NRT their eyes glaze over like an Apple Fritter at Tim Horton's during a Toronto sunrise.
-James