Originally Posted by
ConciergeMike
Um, hmmm...could have waited until the window opened so as to get the proper dates.
Come on, not everyone has the luxury of time to play around with like you do.
Originally Posted by
ConciergeMike
Nothing, and you DO deserve the change fee...see above comment. Why someone would book a return ticket on the wrong date is a little
...I'm thinking I have to go to CUN for a wedding next May, so here's what I'll do: I'll book the outbound exactly 330 days out so as to get to the wedding on time on the day the inventory opens, and I'll ignore that my ride home isn't available yet. As the Guinness commercials would say, "Brilliant!"
I didn't book a wrong date. I wanted X date. It wasn't available, which I found hard to believe. So I was given Y date, this being the closest available date. I had to take it, otherwise I couldn't fly, and I had to fly. And there was no cheaper alternative.
Your strategy would work for some, but certainly not for others. You have to take into account that travel agents sometimes have their hands tied up and cannot do stuff without first consulting the airline, or that the airline was being a ..... and not releasing dates. I'm convinced the latter was the case for me.