Originally Posted by
findark
We can look up the exact fare rules if you state the date of ticketing, fare basis (PNA86SNC), and citypair.
In most cases, you can keep the original fare if P space is available and the new flights satisfy the fare rules of the original fare, measuring advance purchase from the original ticketing date to the new travel date.
A -NA86- fare should require a 28-day AP and Sunday or 7-day stay, with no day or seasonality restrictions. The fare may, however, have a promotional period.
Aha, thanks for that response! Putting that information into ExpertFlyer was actually the trick to getting it to give me the fare rules. (I had tried before, but I had not entered all that information at once.)
This was a fare ticketed on Jul 14 2021 for travel between BOS and ZRH.
I think in the fare rules I see (at least) two problems for doing what I want to do:
- I see this restriction that “TICKETS MUST BE ISSUED ON/BEFORE 14JUL21.” I’m guessing this also applies to ticket re-issues, so no matter what I do, we cannot re-issue tickets with this fare.
- There is a maximum stay requirement, in particular that “TRAVEL FROM LAST STOPOVER MUST COMMENCE NO LATER THAN
3 MONTHS AFTER DEPARTURE FROM FARE ORIGIN.” I flew my outbound in August, so we’re already past that, so even if the above restriction does not apply to re-ticketing, we still cannot construct a valid fare under this rule.
So I’m guessing this means that whenever I rebook, I will end up needing to reprice under current fare rules. They’ll apply the amount I already paid to that new ticket, but I won’t be able to get the same sale fare I had, so it will be pretty expensive.