Booked Hawaii using points, need to change
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Booked Hawaii using points, need to change
Booked WN to Hawaii using points in Aug and now need to change flights to a week later...How do I do this?
There is nothing in the same buckets and in fact, all the point reservations are highly inflated...
Appreciate if any one has any ideas.?
There is nothing in the same buckets and in fact, all the point reservations are highly inflated...
Appreciate if any one has any ideas.?
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You change and book at the current price.
Same with ALL booked tickets.
Or just cancel and have funds available for a year. (usually)
Same with ALL booked tickets.
Or just cancel and have funds available for a year. (usually)
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Sorry, I know how to make a change. I want to move my flights out week out but "not at current rates". Waiting for another sale, schedule change or anyone has heard
that WN will offer another free change period.
that WN will offer another free change period.
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This isn't your specific situation, but any time I end up stuck with a flight that I can no longer use I still keep it until the time of the flight. A schedule change can save you, or also an extreme delay (I think anything over 2 hours would cover you). I believe it used to be that for points bookings you could just no-show and the points would automatically redeposit, however that seemed risky to me so if the flight was on time I'd cancel an hour or two beforehand to make sure everything was on the up-and-up. I realize, however, that this is not your specific case (you still want to fly, but on a later date). Just cross your fingers for a schedule change at this point. If you have a ton of points you could try booking your desired flight with points as a placeholder and then if your original flight ends up with a change, cancel the new points booking and have them move the old flight to the newly-desired date. I'm not 100% sure if that would work but it might be worth trying if you have lots of banked points.
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Others have reported in the Hawaii thread that fares can become very low a few days before travel. Maybe you'll get lucky.
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HNL-OAK this week:
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It's two weeks from now that it has a price in the range you captured. On Jun 9, it shows $214.
But then I'm checking on a holiday weekend Sunday morning, and you were checking on a Wednesday afternoon. So maybe it's only at certain times of week?