Originally Posted by
ExSp33db1rd
So why - when I turn up early and request to be seated on the "just about to depart earlier aircraft with empty seats" do they charge me a fortune - quote Re-Booking fee" - to take one of the empty seats and give them the chance to sell my later seat again ?
I sit around and wait, stuff 'em.
I've had the opposite, and a pleasant experience flying out of AKL to YVR via LAX. Finished business in AKL early and got to the airport in time to politely ask if there was a possibility of being put on an earlier flight. They said yes very quickly (no cost, even though our tickets were the cheapest we could get) but advised that the connection to YVR would not change, so we would wait at LAX instead of AKL. We were quite happy with the process.