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Nov 30, 2021, 3:00 pm

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Originally Posted by MikeyZBT

Hey everyone-

I recently purchased a multi-city trip to Europe for summer 2022. Going into one city and flying back from another. Everything went great. Used Pay With Miles, etc.

Our friends were waiting to see about the cost maybe going down and they looked today at the same flights and the cheapest Economy is "Refundable Main" in "K" Fare... and is nearly twice the price ($1,700 for me vs. $3,200 for them). Any reason why that is happening? Seems like an astronomical cost increase and doesn't make much sense.

Is there a bug that is "forcing" people into refundable main today?

I'm wondering whether there's a glitch since fare class K normally isn't refundable. OTOH a RT TATL fare of $3200 could be a B or Y class fare.

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