boniam

Price through agent was around $75 less. However when i checked yesterday night the continental price was also down $100 and so i booked rightaway. They way i did was i first booked my wife and kid and at the payment page i selected i want to talk to somebody in phone. At that point of time it gave me a confirmation number and said that my reservation will be held for 2 days. Then i went on to change my canceled ticket. I did it online because online it wasn't tagging me $25 expedia transfer fees. I went to change and in the last page it errored out though. It looked like my reservation changed partially but ticket were not issued. I called and they straigten this out. They completed the change (the agent did mention $25 booking transfered fees but waived that) and get teh ETC issued and applied to my other held reservation.

One thing i found that the change flight option didn't show me all flight options available through booking a new reservation option. It was showing costly options. That looks like a nice to have bug for them. I wonder that was deliberate. Also, in an iterneray it showed me the costly class for one of my flight (costly than the ticket that i booked as new reservation). They i selected a particular class and it showed me lower fare. Luckily all my leg were on same class so i could find that fare. But it looked fishy. Can we complain about that. I wonder how many people buy costly flight through change flight option.

Happy

Thanks boniam for updating. It is nice to see people coming back to post their results so everyone can benefit from the info. ^

I think your suspicion is on target. You certainly can complain about this, may be using the Contact Us and send your complain to customer relations of CO. See if they would ever reply.

sparkzone

Guys, is that time of the year again I need assistance in finding cheap fares using DL in order to cancel my ticket book last year for Jan 04, 2010 . So far the cheapest I found is SLC-LAS for $102 or so one way. Any DL guru can help? maybe lower it even more... thanks

Bikeguy

dtw-stl $70 ai o/w.

Yoksel

Thanks everyone who has contributed to this topic! I wish TYN didn't change their rules as I'm back at around 90K TYP

I just called Delta today to cancel my trip. They charged me $150 as expected and told me I have until 1 year after my original ticket purchase date (2/17) to book another flight.

If I book a cheap flight, will the rest of the money expire in a year after re-booking? I can't really plan any travel at the moment - is there a better way to deal with it then wasting the money on the cheapest Delta ticket I can find?

fwbangs

Did anybody tried booking one way tickets? they might be cheaper

pykerl

A bit of a tangential question...

is there any way to pay only partially with a Delta eCertificate? The reason being is that I would like to use my Citi Priority Pass to partially pay for the ticket and then obtain some TYN points from the miles flown.

Thanks!

moondog

yes

LGA

DL told me that I could not use part of my, oh $400 credit or so for a $2xx itinerary and then pay part with a CC - the payment would only come from the credit and leave nothing left to charge. Now my strategy is to keep little chunks of credit for just such an occasion so I can use one of the credits that is somewhat less value than the itin I want to purchase then charge the rest. Moondog, do you have a better way of handling this?

moondog

I haven't had any DL vouchers for around 3 months now, but when I did, I often booked flights online and was able to choose the amount of funds that came out of the voucher. I wouldn't be surprised if this functionality no longer exists because a lot of changes have been happening at DL recently.

Bikeguy

Just cashed out my last 2 with Delta.

Sitting on 8K.

My family and I will never fly enough to use it all in one year and I am too cheap to pay for business.

So, looks like I will be using some and giving some (probably the majority) to several charities that I know pay for flights.

Just wanted to throw that thought out there for people that normally give to charities or are considering it.

Happy

I can verify this is definitely the case.

I just finished a rebooking against the canceled TYP ticket. Online I could not pick the fare as found under new reservation even though it showed me the identical flights available. Doing it a new booking the fare for FLL-IAH-SFO r/t is 193 before tax and fee, or 232.80 A/I. Using the Change function, the fare jumped to almost $400 before tax, or 435xx A/I. I could not make it to book the fare code I wanted. Ending up using the call function to contact Continental.com support. Unfortunately the agent did not waive the $25 agency fee.

This is a very sleazy act of CO's website to be designed this way.

milemission

Happy or anyone:
Do anyone know about AA? I booked a flight and AA sent me $300 voucher which will expire next month. Should I book a refundable flight or non-refundable flight? Can I use this kind of voucher to book online?

How about UA?

Thank you!

Happy

AA voucher cannot be used online as it is paper voucher. Though you can book online then call reservation to inform them you are using a voucher. You would get instruction to mail your voucher with reservation to a location in Florida and the ticketing will be done in that office.

No idea about the refundable ticket but have read some posts about this approach to use refundable ticket so next time when rebooking you dont have to pay ticket change fee. In fact some on AA forum consider this is a way to turn the paper voucher to a pseudo e-cert (meaning you now have a refundable ticket that you can rebook against over the phone or at the airport without having to send your voucher to processing center because the latter approach requires some 10 to 14 days lead time.)

No idea about UA and would love to read others experiences.

You may want to post a question on UA forum just to ask if there is any way to extend the life of an expiring UA voucher. (totally leave out the TYP part).

friedablass

I've been keeping up with this thread, but as of late I haven't noticed this question and a search didn't bring any desirable results. I would like to have suggestions for a refundable fare on CO for around $360 and another for $260 to extend the life of these remaining balance on 2 vouchers (the rest has thankfully been used up already!). I tried some routes on CO, but only got fares $450 and up. Any and all help is much appreciated from those in the now.

TIA!