Changing A Return Flight

[Vulcano]

Hi
I'm booked BA to fly to Rome on May 28 and return August 8.

I've been asked to be best man at a mates wedding late July

Ok so I want to change my return flight home.

Agent tells me BA recalculate the whole fare so it's $2k extra.

I could cancel the flight and lose $300 and that's fine. I will just rebook with somebody else.

Another mate says keep the flight. So do the 1st one to Rome then change the date of the return as they then won't recalculate the whole fare.

So just wondering what some advice could be.

Cheers

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Hi
I'm booked BA to fly to Rome on May 28 and return August 8.

I've been asked to be best man at a mates wedding late July

Ok so I want to change my return flight home.

Agent tells me BA recalculate the whole fare so it's $2k extra.

I could cancel the flight and lose $300 and that's fine. I will just rebook with somebody else.

Another mate says keep the flight. So do the 1st one to Rome then change the date of the return as they then won't recalculate the whole fare.

So just wondering what some advice could be.

Cheers

Just some initial thinking to hopefully get this started for you....

What is the specific change fee? Assume a certain amount plus fare difference.
What is the specific cancellation fee?

If you just bought a return leg on its own, quite often its more than 50% of the original booking (both legs).

Sometimes the cancellation fee is expressed per leg, so if you cancelled both legs it is $600.

So I think its a possibility to travel the first leg and cancel the second leg.

Another (very outlandish) possibility is to throw in a new return booking even a reward booking that has free cancellation (Rome to Australia in July, Australia to Rome next year) and change your initial Rome to Australia leg from August to next year. Guarantees you another EU trip next year

 

[Vulcano]

Hi and thanks for the reply
All I know is there is a $300 cancellation fee and the agent said to change the date of return BA are saying 2k

I think I'm better off taking the $300
hit and rebooking with QF.
These are business class tickets so she can get me a QF fare similar to the BA