American Airlines $2 Billion flight change fee

[AisleSeat]

A man looking to change his flight within the US was shocked to find an option that would charge him more than $2 billion to do so.

One alternative, with two stops in Indianapolis and Charlotte and a total of 11 hours and 23 minutes in travel time, would cost $639.31.

The second alternative, a 7 hour 42 minute flight with one stop in Dallas Fort Worth, would include a $2,147,483,648 airline change fee.

Man who tried to switch flight given $2,100,000,000 change fee option

A man came across a more than $2billion change fee option from American Airlines.

metro.co.uk

Seems AA have some work to do with their algorithm.

 

[bernardblack]

That number is the maximum value of a signed 32-bit integer. There has been some sort of overflow in the calculation somewhere.

 

[flyingfan]

Thought it was punishment for hidden city ticketing…

 

[oz_mark]

...and people think Qantas change fees are over the top

 

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The second alternative, a 7 hour 42 minute flight with one stop in Dallas Fort Worth, would include a $2,147,483,648 airline change fee.

airlines got to recoup all the money they lost during COVID somehow