Originally Posted by
giodeez
Tried to change this flight yesterday and found out it couldn't be changed online. Waited a few hours for a callback and then found that changing the shortest (American Eagle regional) flight on a 6 flight round trip was going to cost me $6000. Now I'm looking at entirely different itineraries and I'm not super confident in being able to handle that smoothly over the phone. If I could change my flight online, I think this would be a good option but whatever it is about the flight I booked (on AA.com) I'm not allowed to make changes online.
In that case I would recommend putting the itinerary you want on hold, and calling in and asking the agent to cancel your existing reservation and using the funds to purchase the on-hold reservation.