Originally Posted by
NYC2SGN
The agent said there was no change fee for HKG flights (presumably, due to the civil unrest). However, there was a fare difference since the new flights were a higher fare class.
Surprised nobody has commented on this part. Right now there is no public waiver for HKG flights, so you should've been charged a change fee. If there was a waiver, then those rules would apply. Some require the same fare class/code to be available, some only require that it be the same cabin.
Originally Posted by
NYC2SGN
Yep. Not sure what the difference would be in this case (in the case of return portion of RT).
Sure somebody else can explain this better, but essentially the difference is if you haven't flown any of your trip, any change requires that the WHOLE trip be repriced. Whereas if you've flown the outbound, and you're only changing the return, then only that piece gets repriced (and if I recall, can keep the same rules, advance purchase requirements, etc. of the original purchase).