Plane ticket question

[phorsenuf]

I don't fly so hopefully someone can help me out.

My future DIL is flying in from Germany to meet us for a week in Disney. Then she'll come back up to NH for a week. At the time of making the plane reservations she thought (based on what my DS said) that we were going to be in FL the whole 2 weeks.

Anyways, would she be able to somehow change the flights to arrive in Fl, but fly back to Germany out of NH?

I do know she bought the kind of ticket than can be changed, just didn't know if something like that is possible.

Thanks!

 

[phorsenuf]

anyone?

 

[CarolA]

All I can suggest is to call the airline. I would say it's possible, but maybe expensive. DL for example charges a $300 change fee on international tickets! It might be cheaper just to fly her back to FL to fly home on her original flight.

 

[rgf207]

This is possible but it will be significantly more expensive. She will have to purchase 2 seperate 1 way tickets which will be very expensive than a round trip ticket. Call the airline and inquire.

 

[ducklite]

This is possible but it will be significantly more expensive. She will have to purchase 2 seperate 1 way tickets which will be very expensive than a round trip ticket. Call the airline and inquire.

Um, no. It's called an "open jaw" and I do it fairly often flying in to Philly and out of Newark to come back to Orlando. It's usually the same or within a few dollars of a standard r/t ticket.

To the OP:

If her tickets are fully refundable, she should be able to change them to fly into MCO and then out of Logan. Is she on Lufthansa or ???

If she can't change them, then she can buy a r/t from MOC to Manchester on a domestic carrier, and fly back in time to Orlando to make her flight to Germany.

Anne

 

[phorsenuf]

Um, no. It's called an "open jaw" and I do it fairly often flying in to Philly and out of Newark to come back to Orlando. It's usually the same or within a few dollars of a standard r/t ticket.

To the OP:

If her tickets are fully refundable, she should be able to change them to fly into MCO and then out of Logan. Is she on Lufthansa or ???

If she can't change them, then she can buy a r/t from MOC to Manchester on a domestic carrier, and fly back in time to Orlando to make her flight to Germany.

Anne

I'm not sure if her ticket is fully refundable. I just know that my DS told her to get a ticket that she can change the dates if she needs to.
Is that a refundable ticket? LOL
I also asked him what airline she was flying in on and he thought Delta, but when he used to fly in from germany it was always Northwest (thru Lufthansa). I'll ask her when I email her.

So she would need an open jaw ticket.

 

[ducklite]

I'm not sure if her ticket is fully refundable. I just know that my DS told her to get a ticket that she can change the dates if she needs to.
Is that a refundable ticket? LOL
I also asked him what airline she was flying in on and he thought Delta, but when he used to fly in from germany it was always Northwest (thru Lufthansa). I'll ask her when I email her.

So she would need an open jaw ticket.

If her ticket allows for dates changes it's probably refundable. There might be a difference in cost between flying out of MCO and flying out of BOS, and she'll ahve to make up that difference, but it shouldn't be too much.

Then she'll have to book a o/w ticket from ORlando to NH--are you flying SW?

Anne

 

[rgf207]

Um, no. It's called an "open jaw" and I do it fairly often flying in to Philly and out of Newark to come back to Orlando. It's usually the same or within a few dollars of a standard r/t ticket.

To the OP:

If her tickets are fully refundable, she should be able to change them to fly into MCO and then out of Logan. Is she on Lufthansa or ???

If she can't change them, then she can buy a r/t from MOC to Manchester on a domestic carrier, and fly back in time to Orlando to make her flight to Germany.

Anne

I was under the assumption that she would be flying different airlines, not the same one. In that case than you are correct. I do that too but if you are flying 2 seperate airlines than you would need 2 one-way tickets

 

[phorsenuf]

If her ticket allows for dates changes it's probably refundable. There might be a difference in cost between flying out of MCO and flying out of BOS, and she'll ahve to make up that difference, but it shouldn't be too much.

Then she'll have to book a o/w ticket from ORlando to NH--are you flying SW?

Anne

It's a little tricky actually. Me, my DH and 2 DS's are driving down to Disney. My DS is flying in for R&R from Afghanistan. Future DIL is flying into Fl. from germany to meet us all. We will vacation for one week there and then all go back home to NH. They will either fly up and meet us or endure the car trip home with us. DS still has to work out his part of the trip. I think the closest he can get is to Atlanta and then he'll grab a plane to Orlando. We can't meet him in Atlanta on the way because since he is flying military he could get delayed.

The logistics of it all! LOL

 

[ducklite]

OK, so he's taking hops. I'm pretty sure he will be able to get closer than Atlanta--you could look at SW one way for them up to NH.

And my guess is she's going to get her best flights out of Boston as oppsoed to NH--if she flies from manchester to Germany it will put one more conenction in for her.

Anne

 

[phorsenuf]

OK, so he's taking hops. I'm pretty sure he will be able to get closer than Atlanta--you could look at SW one way for them up to NH.

And my guess is she's going to get her best flights out of Boston as oppsoed to NH--if she flies from manchester to Germany it will put one more conenction in for her.

Anne

If she can do the "open jaw" thing then we will do it out of Boston. That's how my DS always flew and it really is pretty easy for us to breeze in and out of Logan. DS told us he's going to fly into Orlando. How he is doing that I'm not sure, we'll just meet him there. He told us if they don't drive back with us, they'll fly (on their dime) so that's fine with us. The important thing is just seeing him and meeting her! The rest I suppose will work itself out.