It is against the fare rules imposed by the airlines".
Under standard fare rules, it lost all value in December, a year after purchase.
For example, this year airlines reintroduced minimum-stay fare rules aimed at discouraging business travelers from using cheaper advance-purchase fares.
(Orbitz, for its part, said in a statement, "We have an obligation to uphold airline fare rules and also protect consumers from making purchases that could be invalidated").
When I clicked on the latter listing for fare rules, I also received a message that I could get a $178 fare to northern California if I was willing to fly from Providence to Sacramento.
I clicked through to American and typed in dates that conformed to the fare rules on AOL's Travel Bargains page, and crossed my fingers -- in vain, it turned out.
The answer: no, and in fact, if I took another form of transportation for that flight segment, I would be breaking the fare rules, which could lead to a penalty and the cancellation of my return ticket.
Your new ticket will be subject to any additional collection, if necessary, as governed by the applicable fares and fare rules in effect at that time.By now, Gulliver readers will be able to predict with weary certainty what happened next.
Do check the fare rules, the small print about issues like time or date changes, and (especially in Europe), delay care rules.
Although I much prefer ANA's service to United's, I balked at the ANA ticket because the fare rules grant only 50percentt of the mileage flown.
