You know that feeling you get when that highly coveted award seat you've been waiting for finally becomes available? Or when there's availability to redeem points at a "dream" hotel over the holidays? Usually you get that elated feeling from doing lots of research and/or monitoring availability closely. Apparently sometimes forgetfulness pays off as well,…
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What day did you original hold it and what day did you find the lower fare? I find that mid-week fares are usually the lowest
Looks like the tickets were booked in "O" class. Does "O" class refer to Main Cabin Extra (based on the seat numbers)?
Ben, have you ever requested a refund for the price difference when the price has fallen? What's the procedure on that nowadays?
@ Louis -- Many airlines used to offer a voucher for the difference, but most don't anymore. I know American doesn't. So unless you want to pay the change fee (which would be more than the fare difference in this case), there's not really a way to do that.
@ Michael C -- Nope, that's just an economy fare class. I got Main Cabin Extra seating due to my status.
Any insight on why the fare would go down that much? Is this something that happens often or was it a mistake, or something else? Thanks!
@lucky I'm confused. "with my luck" Does that mean Lucky is your name because you have bad luck? Hmmm.
@Oops
UA has a few $132 LAX-DFW RTs so perhaps AA wanted to undercut them.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-deals/1711215-ua-132-lax-iad-rt-4694pqm-2-80cpm.html