HizMinnie2015
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- Oct 1, 2014
We bought our flights for our October trip via United flying out of O'Hare Chicago. What are the chances that pricing would decrease? Do I need to watch the flights for that decrease?
I wouldn't even look at prices once I have paid for them.
We bought our flights for our October trip via United flying out of O'Hare Chicago. What are the chances that pricing would decrease? Do I need to watch the flights for that decrease?
i think you should occasionally check in september for time changes of your flights instead of price decreases.
United has very high change fees which makes it not worth even looking. I think the $200 quoted abive is correct.
Of course, I just put my foot in mouth. We are thinking of going to WDW in July. Wife was checking prices last night and found them out of Detroit for $173/person. Last month they were $230. Maybe they could drop quite a bit by then.
A few days ago, for the first time ever, I received an e-mail from United informing me of time changes for my October flight. But not a word from them about our upcoming flight in a month...it also had a big change. Continental never did this...United will constantly eliminate my favorite 6:00 p.m. flight home and make it much later or earlier.
I would grab that $173 price too! If you have the United chase master card you can hold your reservation for 24 hours for free and then keep or cancel. Don't like paying the fee for that card, but the free checked bag makes it worth it, along with one pass/year for the United lounge.
This is right on. While I'm fine doing business with and flying on United, they do "change things up" quite a bit, especially if you book very early like we tend to. Usually, it's just flight numbers or small time changes of a couple of minutes here and there but once in a while it a biggie and the earlier you get it fixed, the better your choices.
As an example we had a 9:00 am departure and the flight was dropped to add a 11:55 pm flight to the schedule. We were put on a 6:00 am flight by their system. I called right away and because the change was fairly big they were fine letting us change to the late flight- for the night before. That got us to MCO about 10 hours earlier than our original reservation could have and saved us the cost of a hotel room (we live a couple of hours away from the airport).
United does not have a price protection policy. If the price drops, they will NOT give you a credit or refund for the difference.I was just thinking of getting a credit should prices go down on our current flights or even a refund if it was a big difference.
OP unless you bought fully refundable tickets, you pretty much pay the price and don't get credit if it goes down (just like you don't have to pay more if it goes up).
This is hidden somewhere on the United website, it is called United's 24-hours flexible booking policy. I took this from their website...although I am not sure you HAVE to be a United credit card holder. The way I am reading it, you can purchase tickets and have a 24 hour time frame to change or cancel. I've done this many times and never had a problem....but that doesn't mean anything. Things change constantly:
United's 24-hour flexible booking policy allows the flexibility to make changes to your reservations within 24 hours of purchasing your ticket, without incurring change fees. This includes canceling your reservation and requesting a 100% refund of the ticket price....