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Old Mar 2, 2019, 2:47 am
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jsloan
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Originally Posted by Steve M
Even if things had gone the way you expected them to go, why would you pay a $200 change fee to use a residual credit for a $194 flight? Even if you had kept the residual credit, why not pay $194 now for the $194 flight, instead of $200 now, and keep the entire $513 for some other flight? What you did makes no sense even before you ran into the Travelocity residual credit problem.
I disagree, assuming the credit can be worked out properly.

The change fee was going to have to be paid anyway in order to unlock any of the value. The OP's next $513 worth of flights was going to cost $200, no matter how the pieces are broken up. The extra $6 paid isn't lost -- it's reflected in the amount of the travel credit the should still be attached to the original ticket.

This is a different situation than paying the change fee when the original ticket cost less than fee. That never makes sense. This, on the other hand, is perfectly reasonable. Maybe OP doesn't have that much more UA travel to do before the expiration of the ticket.
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