Huge MM Mistake

[monsterz]

I was just looking at my flight for my upcoming trip home and realized I booked it incorrectly.  I somehow screwed up the arrival and destination cities with stupid change fees it will cost me $500 to change it.    I wish I could just cancel the whole thing but this was being tacked onto a business trip and those tickets have already been purchased and can't be changed.  

[Deleted]

That sucks. We had to change our flight once because DS was sick & it cost us the value of 1 ticket to change all three. They make cake when people have to change things.

[y4m]

Change fees are out of control.

And I think there's a certain amount of monopoly action going on there.

The trip I'm on now, I made the mistake of booking as a multi-segment. Then when I wanted to change segment 1 by a few hours (to an equivalently priced flight), they wanted like $600. A $200 change fee (fine, whatever), plus $400 because the unaffected flights that I was already on and still planning to be on now cost more. It's such a racket.

[Pom]

Oh crap, that sucks. I am almost petrified when booking tickets that I will make a mistake.

We just cancelled H's flight to go and pick up his dad for the FIL's cancelled move down here. $200 gone. The flight one way was $259. So I guess we have $59 to put towards H's next trip... whoopee. What a waste.

[WinterWine]

Oh no, that sucks! I did that once- booked our tickets for September rather than August. It was more expensive to change them than buy new ones. Such a racket. :-(

[ESF]

They charge these fees because they can. Airlines are essentially immune from civil lawsuits brought by passengers and to a lesser extent, state attorney generals, so they have no incentive to stop gouging people. For most of their illegal or unconscionable behavior, the federal government is the only entity able to hold them responsible.

Complain to the FAA and the FTC. I know that won't do you any good, but these agencies won't ever do anything unless the problem is brought to their attention.

[halfpint]

I have nightmares about booking flights for the wrong date or city.

Such a hassle, I'm sorry you're dealing with it!

[crashgizmo]

UGH that sucks!

I accidentally booked a business trip to come home a day later than the conference ended. I was paying OOP to get the points, so I had to eat the cost. I ended up getting a $99 hotel room and staying the extra night to save $200.

[konapoppy]

I'm sorry. I just went through this myself. So frustrating!

[Redpoppy]

That sucks. I had to book multiple one ways between Austin and Boston. The names are so similar I was very anxious whenever I hit purchase.

[thatgirl2478]

That sucks .

DH and I had booked tickets to fly to Maine for a family reunion when he was issued orders to deploy to Kuwait.  Luckily the airline was actually really understanding and issued a credit voucher for his unused ticket.  I was able to use it a few months later to fly to New York for a girls weekend.

[mdana]

My mom booked H and I tickets to go to FL with my family and when we all got to the airport we discovered that she had booked ours for the day before. Whoops.