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Summer Airfare Tips- Getting Ecredits Back When Airfare Decreases
Posted on 6/14/25 at 7:27 am
Posted on 6/14/25 at 7:27 am
Hope everyone has a fun weekend planned and let's hope for a tigers win tonight 
In my usual saturday morning routine, I was checking my already booked flights for this summer/fall/winter travel and noticed a flight I have scheduled in two weeks that dropped $50 in price. I was a little shocked to see being that close to departure date and the price drop especially for a Sunday midday flight. Not sure if this means less people are traveling this summer or if Delta had their prices set too high?
In any case, my suggestion would be if you have flights booked for the rest of this summer, fall, or winter, keep an eye out maybe once a week and see if the prices drop. If the prices do drop, on all of the airlines you can click on 'Change Flight' and it will show you the new total cost for changing your ticket to either the same flight or a new flight. Specifically to Delta, they made it so that you cannot see the new ticket price on your 'Originally booked' flights so I end up needing to switch to a cheaper flight usually and then rebook it again right away back to the original flight. You can get the fare difference sent back to your account as an e-credit that is good for up to 6 months (southwest) or a year (delta, AA, United) from the date of booking. Those $40, $25, $75 ecredits make a difference in being able to book a one-way ticket somewhere else so would highly recommend doing this since the process is so quick and easy. Note: this does not apply to basic economy tickets as you cannot change those tickets.
Another suggestion I have is to book one-way tickets (for domestic US flights) when possible. There are not many benefits any longer for booking roundtrip tickets especially if the price drops on only one leg of the trip. The only exception to this seems to be specific fares on AA or United that require a roundtrip to get the cheapest ticket. In general though, one-way tickets have become priced as half the cost of a roundtrip so if the fare goes down on one leg, you can now rebook easily if you book one-way tickets.
If you have any questions, happy to try and help walk you through this
In my usual saturday morning routine, I was checking my already booked flights for this summer/fall/winter travel and noticed a flight I have scheduled in two weeks that dropped $50 in price. I was a little shocked to see being that close to departure date and the price drop especially for a Sunday midday flight. Not sure if this means less people are traveling this summer or if Delta had their prices set too high?
In any case, my suggestion would be if you have flights booked for the rest of this summer, fall, or winter, keep an eye out maybe once a week and see if the prices drop. If the prices do drop, on all of the airlines you can click on 'Change Flight' and it will show you the new total cost for changing your ticket to either the same flight or a new flight. Specifically to Delta, they made it so that you cannot see the new ticket price on your 'Originally booked' flights so I end up needing to switch to a cheaper flight usually and then rebook it again right away back to the original flight. You can get the fare difference sent back to your account as an e-credit that is good for up to 6 months (southwest) or a year (delta, AA, United) from the date of booking. Those $40, $25, $75 ecredits make a difference in being able to book a one-way ticket somewhere else so would highly recommend doing this since the process is so quick and easy. Note: this does not apply to basic economy tickets as you cannot change those tickets.
Another suggestion I have is to book one-way tickets (for domestic US flights) when possible. There are not many benefits any longer for booking roundtrip tickets especially if the price drops on only one leg of the trip. The only exception to this seems to be specific fares on AA or United that require a roundtrip to get the cheapest ticket. In general though, one-way tickets have become priced as half the cost of a roundtrip so if the fare goes down on one leg, you can now rebook easily if you book one-way tickets.
If you have any questions, happy to try and help walk you through this
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Posted on 6/14/25 at 10:09 am to CuseTiger
Good info, I continually check price even after I book flights.
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