Originally Posted by
ironmanjt
If you’ve flown the first segment you won’t be refunding - once they refare to determine your refund it might not be worth it.
However, if you change before the first segment you can expect a refare and significant upcharge.!
Indeed. Hence it's before departure when I can still get a refund for just a 5% deduction that I want to know, or better assess at least, if I'll be able to re-ticket after departure (no change in continents) without paying a massive hike. Waiting till I learn from direct experience will be too late.
Your post seems to imply all the people calling AA helped bring the CAI situation to their attention. Not that that’s at fault, but we knew this fare wouldn’t last long given the number of tickets apparently being issued.!
One of the agents on the weekend noted "all I've been doing is ex Cairo for a day or two" so lots of people were booking, or trying to anyhow. But the fare the oneworld website by then had already been making it progressively hard to book, and AA rtw desk staff shared how they were trying to streamline helpful in the rules decisions so it seems AA were not the ones to bring this down. After all, they were just ticketing with other airlines as the governing carrier using that carrier's filed prices.
One assumes it's the volume of tickets from any and all channels that was the noteworthy issue.
Glad I got a $3700 routing I love - can’t wait to start it in a month!
Enjoy! May I ask what your routing is?