Originally Posted by
flyhurl
HA, if only the agent had explained it that way. She said "since you changed your airline and date of travel there is a change fee".
I made the assumption (HA) that I was booking HKG to OSL as the ticket points... Live and learn.
Unfortunately routing does matter as well. I haven't figured out for sure if changing carriers on the same route triggers a change fee or not, but even if not that could still trigger a YQ / YR difference.
I've only done it for AA to JL on a ticket that had YQ but was doing other changes at the same time that needed the $125 fee anyway. AA's and JL's YQ tend to be very close, at least the routes I've used on xONEx. I also did a change from AA code to QF code once, but it was an ex-Japan with no YQ anyway, so there wasn't any noticeable difference, that happened pre-ticketing so no $125 fee.