Originally Posted by
scotbus7
It was my understanding that changes to the date/time of flights on the itinerary could be made at no charge, with the USD125 change fee only being applied if changing any of the actual stops on the ticket (i.e. re-routing
Originally Posted by
anabolism
You shouldn't have to pay the $125 USD fee unless you are changing any of the airports that have been ticketed (regardless of being a stop versus a connection).
Originally Posted by
ernestnywang
To clarify, if you are changing an airport between a transit (X) and a stopover (O), that is clearly a re-routing and the 125USD fee kicks in.
Just for clarification, I added the parenthetical note "(regardless of being a stop versus a connection)" only because [MENTION=10043362]scotbus7[/MENTION] wrote "changing any of the actual stops" and I wanted to clarify that changing the ticketed points triggers the charge, even if a point being changed is a connection and not a stop. As for changing an airport from a stop to a connection or vice versa, I don't personally know if it is supposed to trigger the re-route or not and I would appreciate if someone could point me to an authoritative source for the definition of "ticketed points." I see the logic in what [MENTION=77686]ernestnywang[/MENTION] writes, because the fare calculation always specifies X vs O so it would make sense that changing this is a reroute, but since I don't know the precise definition of "ticketed points" I am not sure. I've had airline agents make such changes without charging me the $125 fee, but that could have just been agent error. When making RTW bookings with dummy dates that I intent to change, I always make sure that any place I want to stop has more than 24 hours between flights, and any place I want to connect has under 24 hours, because I want to be safe.