Airlines phasing out bereavement fares

[Bhavika Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bhavika]

yes yes I too faced this problem of flight tickets fares in the time of emergency....

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Bhavika

[doramider7 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close doramider7]

Similar experience here, too.
My husband had to fly back to Hawaii a couple years ago for his Grandmother's (102) funeral. I called three different scheduled airlines and the cost was not much more than that of a full priced flight < 7 days(~1,500 clams) coach.
I checked the flight and there were plenty of open seats available, plenty.
I even tried FF miles, but they wanted us to use the standard, not saver kind.

Then, I shopped on line and did somewhat better, but ended up with a decent airfare on a charter flight.

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Flexibility to change without penalties was about the only benefit I saw with the bereavement fares....and even then with the much cheaper internet fares and the discount airlines max fares even if one had to change it and pay a penalty was still cheaper to buy a round trip ticket sometimes instead of the bereavement fare.

I was in NY and my dad had medical issues in St. Louis so I had to change everything and ended up with three round trip tickets which I did not use one leg of on each one....and I still saved a bundle compared to the bereavement fare.

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