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Re: lesson learned
[Re: jborosara]
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10/16/2019 09:44 AM
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Sorry, I'm not sure I understand. You mean that you were worried that a hurricane would hit SXM and you wouldn't want to go and they would charge you change fees, to change to a different destination? After Irma, the airlines were waiving change fees for travel for many months after the storm. And trip insurance will often cover that situation, depending on the policy. You had to pay change fees after Irma?
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Re: lesson learned
[Re: jborosara]
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10/16/2019 12:27 PM
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Just wondering if Trip Insurance would have taken care of that? Usually buy it for any major trip, mainly due to elderly parents. Cost of insurance might be lower than paying double for airfare at a later date.
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Re: lesson learned
[Re: fritzks]
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10/16/2019 01:31 PM
10/16/2019 01:31 PM
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fritzks--Yes, I think trip insurance would have covered the change fees, since it was a named storm.
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Re: lesson learned
[Re: jborosara]
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10/17/2019 06:34 PM
10/17/2019 06:34 PM
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Same here. AA gave us full refunds without any issues and we had two individual trips that year, one for November and one for April. No problems at all.
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Re: lesson learned
[Re: jborosara]
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10/21/2019 01:26 PM
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it's unfortunate you were charged "change fees", even if your travel wasn't until february...our travel to SXM was for Dec 2017, and we were able to change our destination for the same period without "change fees", but we did have to pay the difference in fares, which was like $850 for my wife and i also, buying tix as soon as they're released (usually ~330 days out) doesn't always guarantee best fare...you just need to have a a fare in mind you're willing to pay, then go for it when you see the fare is in that ballpark...we could have saved some $s on our outbound this coming december if we had waited more, but am happy we jumped on our return when we did since that fare has increased quite a bit, and had only dropped briefly when we bought it...we actually bought our return a couple months before the outbound but for award travel, we jump on that sh*t usually as soon as seats are released
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Re: lesson learned
[Re: jborosara]
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10/21/2019 08:13 PM
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In fairness to AA, we decided to change the destination of our trip rather than simply asking for a refund - so we ended up paying 400 bucks in change fees, but the flights were cheaper than our SXM flights, so we got about 150 of that back - but I suspect if we'd simply asked for a refund, we'd have gotten one... so that was our bad It pays to know the rules; you won't make that same mistake again.
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