Originally Posted by
jerry a. laska
In my experience, a change from a transit to a stopover requires the ticket to be reissued (which will result in the fee). As others have noted, on a very rare occasion I have had an airline not charge the reissue fee.
This has been discussed quite a bit before, and I believe the consensus is that a ticket reissue is not supposed to trigger the $125 reroute fee. Some airlines, such as AA, never revalidate, they always reissue for any change, and they only charged me the $125 fee when I've changed the airports that were touched. As it happens, I am in a situation now where I have an agency-issued xONEx and the agency tells me they are prohibited from revalidating, and their interpretation of the rules is that any reissue does trigger the $125 fee.