IYH, my son will be spending the next academic year studying at a yeshiva in Israel.
Thinking about revenue ticket. If I book him one-way BOS-TLV, it's about $685; round-trip, $950.
Thing is, the calendar for the return only goes out ~330 days, and he may be there longer than that.
I understand that I can pay the change fee of ~$300 at some later date, but that kind of defeats the purpose of buying the RT now.
Alternatively, if the airline changes the flight schedule by more than a few minutes, I'm optimistic that I can petition them to change the date to something that will be preferable.
The question is, what's the chance of a such a schedule change between now and say March 2017, and do you think that chance varies by airline?
We're thinking of AC and LX, maybe UA.
(I realize this question is asking for opinion/guesstimate, but you all have lots of experience to inform those opinions.)