Originally Posted by owenzelig

Here's the situation:

Wife is pregnant and due in August. Wants to have her mother come to visit right after the birth (but not there FOR the birth). We live in SEA and her mother lives in ALB. I'm pretty sure that we'll just have to spring for a full fare ticket when the time comes, but was wondering if there is any value in monitoring the full fare tickets for a while and seeing if we can get a "good" deal on one now, then cancel the flight and just book it later, when necessary.

I'm pretty sure that this strategy won't work, because we'd have to pay the difference between what we initially paid for the "fake" ticket and the cost of the ticket that we actually book (or the price could even drop). . . but is there perhaps some means of doing this I'm not seeing here that could save us some $$?