Originally Posted by irishguy28

Over a year ago, I booked a Flying Blue award, in J class, from East Coast USA to AMS on a direct KLM flight for January of this year, for the cheapest possible rate (which, at the time, was 56,500 miles). A few months later I got a notice of cancellation - KLM cancelled the flights on Mondays during winter on this route. I was automatically rebooked to the direct flight on the Sunday, but as the event I was there for was happening on the Sunday that wasn't acceptable. I rang up to see what they could do, and I was rebooked onto a connecting Air France itinerary on the Monday. I had checked the prices for flights on this route and they were now higher; as it was an involuntary change there was, of course, no extra payment required.

About 2 months before travelling, I found a reasonably priced SAS cash ticket, so I ended up cancelling that Flying Blue booking (and the Avios booking I had to get there in the first place). When I cancelled my ticket, there was no new seat available at the 56,500 rate to either Paris or Amsterdam on the date of travel or any other day that week - I did check. The prices on the Monday had gone up even further than when I had been rebooked onto that Air France flight - around 150k each day that week.