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karns Feb 6, 2019 8:33 pm
LH Economy Flex
 
Is seat selection free with LH Economy Flex? And can you change dates on the return flight with no fees?

chris63 Feb 6, 2019 9:29 pm
Originally Posted by karns (Post 30748593)
Is seat selection free with LH Economy Flex? And can you change dates on the return flight with no fees?
Seat selection is free on Flex but look at the fare rules regarding changes, they have different types of Flex.
All benefits are displayed if your booking via LH.com & you can cancel free of charge within 24 hrs.

SK AAR Feb 7, 2019 3:37 am
Why would you purchase a much more expensive Eco Flex ticket? Even discounted Economy Classic fares (fares that include checked luggage and allow you to assign a seat) can be changed before departure for modest change fee (+ possible upfare if the original booking class is no longer available).

cas_de Feb 7, 2019 4:17 am
Originally Posted by SK AAR (Post 30749433)
Why would you purchase a much more expensive Eco Flex ticket? Even discounted Economy Classic fares (fares that include checked luggage and allow you to assign a seat) can be changed before departure for modest change fee (+ possible upfare if the original booking class is no longer available).
One of the benefits of a FLEX ticket is (IMHO) the ability to do a same day change to an earlier and maybe even later flight without having to pay a change fee and the fare delta. This is especially valuable on the return portion of a ticket and/or if you are flying on a busy route with many daily flights. I did use FLEX tickets if I wanted to secure a modest fare far out, expecting a rather high probability that I need to rebook once or twice before actually using the ticket. Paying multiple change fees or fare deltas did offset the additional cost of the FLEX fare for me. Just my $.02

daumueller Feb 7, 2019 11:25 am
But same day change effectively only works on non stops.

cas_de Feb 7, 2019 1:28 pm
Originally Posted by daumueller (Post 30750706)
But same day change effectively only works on non stops.
Since I am based out of MUC 98% of my intra-european travel for work on LH (and *A) is nonstop. I do get your point, but it hardly ever applies to me. I haven't had a situation where personal travel forced me into booking FLEX fares.

daumueller Feb 7, 2019 2:56 pm
Originally Posted by cas_de (Post 30751189)
Since I am based out of MUC 98% of my intra-european travel for work on LH (and *A) is nonstop. I do get your point, but it hardly ever applies to me. I haven't had a situation where personal travel forced me into booking FLEX fares.
then it works just fine. If you have a connection, it works in theory but you can’t change the routing. In most cases it would only work though if you switch xxx-Fra-yyy for xxx-Muc-yyy or vv unless your plans changed dramatically and you fly in the morning instead of evening


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