Changing carriers -- fee ?
Aug 24, 2022 | 10:41 pm
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Changing carriers -- fee ?
I know changing carriers is supposed to be free, but is there ever any YQ extra charge? Suppose you buy a flight on one carrier (like AA) and then later decide you'd like to fly the same route on BA. Perhaps if you originally bought the flight with BA, the YQ might have been higher. If you change it to BA later, do they ever recalculate the YQ and ask you to pay more?
Aug 25, 2022 | 2:13 pm
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I know changing carriers is supposed to be free, but is there ever any YQ extra charge? Suppose you buy a flight on one carrier (like AA) and then later decide you'd like to fly the same route on BA. Perhaps if you originally bought the flight with BA, the YQ might have been higher. If you change it to BA later, do they ever recalculate the YQ and ask you to pay more?
See, for example:
Flight code change
Aug 27, 2022 | 6:20 pm
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Does the free codeshare change apply only to xONEx tickets, or does it apply to any tickets with codesharing available? I've seen some pretty crazy price differences between codeshares on the same flight before, and it'd be nice to be able to purchase the cheapest one and then just change to the preferred codeshare for my FFP.
Aug 27, 2022 | 7:05 pm
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Does the free codeshare change apply only to xONEx tickets, or does it apply to any tickets with codesharing available? I've seen some pretty crazy price differences between codeshares on the same flight before, and it'd be nice to be able to purchase the cheapest one and then just change to the preferred codeshare for my FFP.