<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by snake:
Don't believe anything a CO res agent tells you about what's gonna happen in the future, heck, most of the time they don't know what the rules are right now.</font>
Good point, snake...
Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if CO moves to the $100 change fee. Problem is, we can now see the availability via the website, and simply hold a new res while cancelling and redepositing the old res.
But that's par for the course. The airlines (in general), have done everything they can to lower their costs (no problem), yet they still expect us to buy the higher fare, and grumble when we don't.
Have you ever read the story of the 747. Because of it's size, the airlines were able to offer drastically lower fares because of the efficiency the 747 offered in certain markets. Australia-US was cited as an example.
Can you imagine if the 747 were to be introduced today? The airlines would love the cost savings the aircraft provided, but still expect us to pay the same old high fares! And then, they'd whine about the airplanes not being full!
Thankfully, it appears the days of the old-fashioned airlines is quickly coming to a close....