Strange Pricing for Flight Changes

[brissyflyer]

I'm looking at the option of changing a SYD-BNE flight which is part of a BNE-SYD-BNE booking however the fare difference calculations appear to be totally warped.

It's a getaway fare so I know there is the $80 change fee, I accept that. However when changing just the SYD-BNE sector it's showing a fare difference of $70 on a $129 fare and while I can't find any way to confirm it I'm quite confident it wasn't originally a $59 fare, I'm pretty sure both legs were $109.

Where things get even more strange is when doing a change calculation for both flights the fare difference is less and the fares for the return flight show as less.

It's not necessary that I change the flights, just taking advantage of the chance to extend a weekend away by a night but has anyone encountered such weirdness before and know if it's worth calling up to query or just forget about it.

 

[MarkD]

Sometimes its cheaper to just throw the ticket away and buy another. Is the base fare used to calculate changes. i.e. exclusive of all taxes and fees?

 

[serfty]

Have a look at your ticket on TripCase . That may show the original breakdown.

 

[oz_mark]

Pricing calculations on return flights are bizarre at the moment on VA.

 

[brissyflyer]

So I realised that the base fares show on the eticket (duh) and based on that the fare difference is all of $12! so something is very wrong with fare calculations.

 

[Must...Fly!]

Call up, clearly something odd is going on.

 

[brissyflyer]

So while not sure what the issue was/is calling up I was able to get the correct price although there was some difficulties at first.

So it pays to check prices.