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Old Mar 31, 2025 | 3:45 am
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Originally Posted by brunos
It is quite interesting that CX allows to use historical fares before the outbound flight when you change a ticket from TPE/KHH. That means that you do not have to pay the fare difference even if fares increased a lot. Of course, that is often accomplished by playing with fare bucket availability, but still surprising.

Regarding standby without repricing, I doubt that an a CX check-in agent at KHH would allow it without a good reason.
I'm not sure about KHH, but I've done standby at TPE quite a few times before and on an Essential ticket it's always just 1k TWD (flight change fare) without any additional cost. I think maybe with the amount of flights going on and from a revenue/profit perspective, it just makes sense for them to send someone on their merry way on an earlier unsold flight and increase availability on later flights.
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