Originally Posted by
irishguy28
Most fare rules have a rule such as the following (taken randomly from a BA ticket similar to the one I want to change) where I've highlighted the requirement to use historical fares once a reprice is initiated after departure of the first leg.
In this example historical fares must also be used in other circumstances, but the ticket I have isn't quite this lenient in this regard; I only get access to historical fares after flying the outbound
I wonder how this works in practice. Say I book a roundtrip during a sale in O class using fare OSALE. A month later the sale has finished, I fly the outbound and would want to change the inbound by a day.
a) What fare class availability is used? On the previous ticketing date it had O class available for the new return flight, but at the date of rebooking the cheapest fare is Z for the new return. Would rebooking take place into O or Z?
b) What fares are being used? On the previous ticketing date it had OSALE and ZSALE classes available for the new return flight, however on the date of rebooking that sale has finished and the cheapest is ZNORMAL. Which of the 3 would be used for the new return flight..
...or am I overthinking all of this and does the "historical fares" rule simply refer to the prices of fares, meaning that if a fare has gone up in price that the old price would be used?