Maybe that's why, I don't know, but a redepositing fee is not a "change" fee in the usual sense we normally talk about. Redepositing really means *cancelling*. With normally hard-to-get award seats that is hardly a viable option, particularly when done close to your travel dates, as you lose all your reservations, and there is no guarantee they will ever be released back into the system as award seats, or to you, for that matter.