Originally Posted by
Steve_Hun
Obviously not always. Though I believe that
NoWindowSeat had the issue with the cases where one can cheaply buy a flex ticket, as those are also sold for the cheaper fare buckets and later on tries to change those ending up with a high fare difference. If you buy this almost 10K J ticket to SIN, I don't think there would be any scenario, where a change would increase the fare, as this is probably already in the most expensive one...
Oh yes, that scenario is of course the major problem with the "flexible" type.
But I don't think the flex tickets are cheap even with zero sold seats in the cabin. At least my limited experience is that whenever I look at a ticket, the flex has been incredibly expensive. In fact, that was the main reason I did not book much during the 3x promo. Trips I looked at was maybe 5-6 k€, which is way beyond what I would pay for Finnair. Even 3x was not enough to offset that pricing.
If those too expensive trips at 6k€ now are priced at 9-10k, even those cases where original ticket was relatively expensive is hit extremely hard by the fare difference on top of the flex ticket type.