Originally Posted by
Ldnn1
Indeed but if the flex fare allows booking into J class, then you can say ‘if they’re selling a seat in business, I can book it for nothing more’. Which is quite different from ‘if they’re selling a seat in R class, I can book it for nothing more’.
On this hypothesis, both are fully flexible fares: you can change without a change fee. But neither fare is completely free of restrictions on changing. In other words, thinking of "fully flexible" as meaning "I can change without restrictions" is fallacious - and equally fallacious in the case of both fares. The R class fully-flexible fare is likely to be more restrictive than the J class fully-flexible fare, because R is more likely to become unavailable than J class - but that's a question of degree, not a difference in principle.