Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
You bought BRI-LAX cheap Now you want FCO-LAX which is not cheap. Your ticket was presumably non-refundable and non-reroutable. If you wanted to change, you should have purchased a more-expensive refundable/changeable ticket. It's the way it's been for years. If you could travel back 20/30+ years when
tickets were still paper coupons, you could have done what you want to do at no cost and the airline(s) would be none the wiser until you were safely home.
No use complaining here. You are not going to get much sympathy.
That’s not OP’s issue. OP said in the first post that the ticket is changeable. But as with any change before flying any segments, this refares the trip, and the fare difference is due. OP just wants to simply drop a flight without refaring, arguing that they already bought the whole thing and just now want to use half of it, so why should that cost more. The classic hidden city ticketing argument. Refundable tickets wouldn’t change anything here.