Most airline reservations don’t need to be changed in the middle of the night and on the weekends, but sometimes stuff happens. Whether a traveler has booked online, with a online agency or a “brick and mortar” travel agent, it may seem like the simplest thing to call the airline. But, there are a lot of “buts.”
Janice Hough looks into inadvertent cancellations. When entire itineraries are loaded into a single passenger record, sometime there can be problems when only the flight portion is canceled resulting in a cancellation of the rest of the record, including hotel and rental car reservations. Be aware.
As many travel articles and posts have noticed, airlines are making an increasingly large part of their revenue from change fees. Which, while sometimes irritating, is certainly their right.