Preserving Early Bird payment with maximum flexibility?
Mar 11, 2018, 7:31 pm
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Preserving Early Bird payment with maximum flexibility?
A relative needs to cancel an upcoming trip for which she paid Early Bird. I'm thinking the best option is to find any super cheap flight far in the future and change the trip to that. This would free up most of the money for re-use while preserving Early Bird on the record locator while tying up the least money. Correct?
Mar 12, 2018, 2:05 am
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I did this and it worked, except for one odd glitch. The Change Reservation page insisted that the schedule was not yet open through the late October date I initially selected. It's as if news of the extension several days ago has not yet reached that software module!.
Mar 12, 2018, 10:56 am
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A relative needs to cancel an upcoming trip for which she paid Early Bird. I'm thinking the best option is to find any super cheap flight far in the future and change the trip to that. This would free up most of the money for re-use while preserving Early Bird on the record locator while tying up the least money. Correct?
Mar 12, 2018, 2:10 pm
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She could use some of the funds to buy a trip on which she doesn't need Early Bird, saving the prepaid EB for a later trip.