Originally Posted by
Stranger
But keep watching. If there were a significant schedule change they might offer you a refund with no penalty. This said, if your flight is in March, that is getting unlikely.
Thank you Stranger! Looks like this is my only hope. They did cancel one of my flight in early December that I had to adjust the return date, but the pricing was the same back then. It seems the price dropped significantly come January. Fingers crossed for another schedule change!
Originally Posted by
Leyland1989
That's the whole point of ticket dynamic pricing ...
Prices can be change according to demand, if they had trouble selling a particular flight on a specific date, they can lower the price to stimulate demand or rise the price if there's room to generate more profits.
The price you paid reflect the demand at the time of your booking, as determined by the dynamic pricing algorithms, and you have made that purchase at that price.
If your ticket is not refundable, then it is what you get.
Unless there's a major schedule change, then you may be able to get a full refund and rebook.
I'd recommend using Google Flights to track the price of your flight, it gives you a range of historical prices and pricing history then you can make your own judgement if that's a good price to pull the trigger or set an alert to notify you when the price goes down.
Thank you for the advice! I did not anticipate the price to fluctuate this much. Small fluctuations I can live with, this large amount really hurts...