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Hello friends! Last month I booked a ticket to Washington DC for a three week long trip in July. Long story short my groggy 2am brain made it two weeks instead of three. I only noticed that I messed up the return date yesterday while talking to a friend. I tried to change the flight return date (American Airlines, if it helps) and the change fee isn't so bad ($80-ish) but the thing is I have to pay the difference in flight costs. The thing is, in a matter of less than a month tickets have somehow doubled in price. The lady from American told me I can keep an eye out for ticket prices in case they go down so that I can re-book my return flight. My question here is how the gently caress did they jump up in price so hard in so little time, and if there's a chance of prices dropping back ever. Thank you for reading about my stupid gently caress up.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2017 15:43 |
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 06:46 |
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duralict posted:That's actually totally normal, unfortunately. American airlines (and American Airlines) are notorious for their weird fluctuating ticket prices, which follow some arcane wizard logic. Good stuff. Thank you very much!
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2017 17:03 |
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Morbus posted:If the price for a flight to a popular area during the summer months doubles, the price is unlikely to go down with more time. It's possible that the price will drop some a few weeks before the departure date, but its equally or more possible that the flight will simply fill up or get more expensive. I very much doubt the price will un-double itself. Yeah I'm flexible with the date, and I checked. There isn't that big of a difference. Also yes it's non-refundable and I found a one-way ticket that's $200 cheaper than switching dates through AA. Oh well. That's gonna be an expensive lesson.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2017 22:50 |
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Cheesemaster200 posted:Have you tried Southwest from BWI? They have cheap, direct flights to a lot of places. They don't have flights to my place! Morbus posted:I'm not sure how AA works but for many airlines, when you change your flight, you pay some fee + the difference in fare. In the event that you change to a cheaper flight, your net cost will be the change fee, minus the difference in fare. So, if you change to a flight that is more than $200 cheaper than your original one, it amounts to a partial refund even if you never take that flight. So if you can find some AA flight, any flight, substantially cheaper than the one you've currently booked, the fare difference - change fee might still allow you to recover some costs. Yeah I totally understand that. But when I made this thread my ticket (which I got for 700-odd USD) jumped up in price to $1500 so the difference plus date change fees were too much. At the time I found a one way ticket for $600 which is ~$200 less than the $800 I would have had to pay to change my flight through AA. Through some black magic AA tickets dropped in price and I am now able to change my return date for $300, so mission accomplished I guess
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# ¿ May 5, 2017 22:12 |