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Possible to Change ticket within 24 hours of bookin without fee?

Possible to Change ticket within 24 hours of bookin without fee?

Old Oct 14, 09, 7:00 pm
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Possible to Change ticket within 24 hours of bookin without fee?

Hello!

I know the risk free cancellation policy lets me cancel a ticket within 24 hours of booking... But I was wondering if It was possible for them to let me change the ticket (specifically change the fare class with me paying the difference) without canceling the ticket or paying the change fee?

The reason Im asking is because the booking was made by a friend whom I don't want to deal with the hassle of rebooking the ticket that they just booked for me.

Blessings!

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Old Oct 14, 09, 7:12 pm
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Originally Posted by faithwins
Hello!

I know the risk free cancellation policy lets me cancel a ticket within 24 hours of booking... But I was wondering if It was possible for them to let me change the ticket (specifically change the fare class with me paying the difference) without canceling the ticket or paying the change fee?

The reason Im asking is because the booking was made by a friend whom I don't want to deal with the hassle of rebooking the ticket that they just booked for me.

Blessings!

fw
To my understand, yes you can cancel the reservation without fee (24 hours risk free cancellation), and book a new one. But the thing is, even though you can book the fare again, the cheap fare (LUTs) might/might not be gone. If I read your post correctly, you wanted to rebook the flights with a different fare class, and I'm pretty sure you'll have to pay more/less money depend on that fare class (for example: Orginal booking class L, you want to book U class, so L--->U= more $$, original booking class U, you want to book L class, so U---->L= less $$, depend).

-If the reason why you want to rebook the ticket to save your friend some hassle, you can cancel and rebook the same reservation again (with the same fare code and everything) and it'll charge on your card instead of your friend's.
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Old Oct 14, 09, 7:15 pm
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Calling DL will probably get this answered as quickly as possible.

800-323-2323 for SM members.
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Old Oct 14, 09, 7:41 pm
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Originally Posted by faithwins
But I was wondering if It was possible for them to let me change the ticket (specifically change the fare class with me paying the difference) without canceling the ticket or paying the change fee?
Not gonna happen. Airlines don't want two forms of payment, let alone payment from two parties. Cancel (refunding original to purchaser) and rebook, or reconcile to living with the itinerary & class as booked presently.
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