change in flight

[broketeacher]

anyone have experience dealing with air canada and a flight change to an international ticket?
I booked a flight on Friday to Israel and realized I would like to change the return ticket - changes are $250 - anyone have any ideas of how I could work around this??
Thanks

[sky121]

anyone have experience dealing with air canada and a flight change to an international ticket?
I booked a flight on Friday to Israel and realized I would like to change the return ticket - changes are $250 - anyone have any ideas of how I could work around this??
Thanks

You can try calling up to change it and saying you made a mistake. If you only just booked it Friday they might be helpful.
It's worth a shot.
Call soon so it's still Sunday. 

[WhyAich]

anyone have experience dealing with air canada and a flight change to an international ticket?
I booked a flight on Friday to Israel and realized I would like to change the return ticket - changes are $250 - anyone have any ideas of how I could work around this??
Thanks

As a TA I know if this happened in the office we have till Monday afternoon. (it could be we get special permission since we're religious IDK ) try you're luck with them. Say it was over the weekend, etc.

(change I'm sure you mean more than a day later? Many times if it's a day off you can get a free change by claims you messed up times and time zones etc).

[PlatinumGuy]

If there's a schedule change on one of your flights, you cange to whatever u like for free

[broketeacher]

thanks for the advice. mentioning shabbos didn't get me very far because it was already sunday evening. but after a few very long holds and unhelpful reps,  I negotiated with the supervisor (the second supervisor I spoke with) and offered to pay $100 instead of $250.  (I explained that I'm a broke teacher :-))

he agreed.  he said that they can't just waive fees - they have to show a charge of some sort when they make a change.  so I paid $100.

it was very time consuming, but i'm happy I saved the $150.

hope this info helps someone in the future...

[Jkhein]

If there's a schedule change on one of your flights, you cange to whatever u like for free

Is there a minimum change time for the to allow free changes? One of my flights changed to 5 minutes later, I happen to need to change that flight to earlier date, can I?

[Dan]

You need to be able to make a case for the change, I don't think you'll be able to come up with one for just 5 minutes.

[john]

I had a change of flight by 3 hours. it got preponed. I wanted to change it by 1 week earlier. can I make a case for that situation?

[Dan]

Yes.

[Jkhein]

Delta online tells me a change has been made and I might be eligible for a change. But T&c's say only if over an hour, and only same day and route.

[aarony]

i cancelled some tickets on united ewr to tlv.  orig time was 4PM it changed to 3:55 PM.  called in the middle of the night, it think CS was in India  and the agent said i didn't have to pay change fee (i didn't even ask -agent offered on his own)


i had a ticket on the same flight with aeroplan miles and the AC agent checked but said that they needed the change to be more than 5 minutes so he could not waive the fee, if it would have been 6 minutes he would have waived it.  so it always pays to ask - even if you can't really make a case...

[broketeacher]

does the airline notify you of the change in time or do you have to check for it yourself?

[mechayamom]

If I changed an awards ticket on United from a flight that was at 10:50 PM to a flight that was 03:55 PM the same day..however, it is within 21 days of the flight, is there any way they will waive the $75 fee?