FlyerTalk Forums - Any chance of compensation???

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Originally Posted by busman7 (Post 14164672)

However in the real world some travelers don't plan their trips to the minute a year in advance, therefore the open ticket. I had no idea when I would leave OZ until until a week prior so what would be the point in checking.

*IF* you had booked just a holding date in the future, you would not have needed open sectors and so would have been issued a electronic ticket which is more easily changed directly with the issuing carrier; this would not have made any difference to availabilty though

If you want to travel on some of the lower booking classes on a route which only operates infrequently then you are taking a large gamble if you only plan to decide a few days before travel. If you need that flexibility then there are more appropriate fares unless you decide to gamble...which you did ... and lost; no ones fault other than your own

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Originally Posted by busman7 (Post 14164672)

I shall also recommend to anyone who will listen to avoid Australia in general & Qantas like the plague.

the key words being "who will listen" I posit