{"id":11375,"date":"2013-06-01T02:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=11375"},"modified":"2013-07-01T02:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T09:48:11","slug":"how-to-avoid-airline-flight-change-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/how-to-avoid-airline-flight-change-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid airline flight change fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ke.jpg\" alt=\"korean air\" width=\"370\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ke.jpg 370w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ke-250x220.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I booked an airline ticket through Kayak. I wanted to change the date of a flight, but I didn&#8217;t purchase their flight insurance so I figured I&#8217;d get hit with some sort of fee or penalty for changing the date. I contacted Kayak, and they told me to contact Travelocity as my flight wasn&#8217;t really booked through Kayak; Kayak basically booked my flight through Travelocity for me. I looked at Kayak&#8217;s website, and they made it sound like the cost would be at least $240 in change fees to change my date. I then contacted Travelocity, but I didn&#8217;t hear anything back for a couple days. While I waited I also contacted Korean Air since they were the actual airline. Travelocity got back to me saying the cost would be at least $81 if I changed my flight through Travelocity. Korean Air then got back to me and said there would be <b>no charge<\/b>. That&#8217;s right, by dealing directly with the airline I saved at least $81 and maybe more. I don&#8217;t know if this works with every airline, or if Korean Air is a fluke, but being able to change the date on a plane reservation for free was nice.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I booked an airline ticket through Kayak. I wanted to change the date of a flight, but I didn&#8217;t purchase their flight insurance so I figured I&#8217;d get hit with some sort of fee or penalty for changing the date. I contacted Kayak, and they told me to contact Travelocity as my flight wasn&#8217;t really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[436],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11385,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11375\/revisions\/11385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}