Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on the best ways to utilise Air NZ flexichange

Turns out you can get more out of Air New Zealand's flexichange service than previously expected.

BloggerAtLarge writer Megan Singleton recently revealed you can change the destination and date as part of the flexichange package on domestic flights - which can come in handy for unexpected events.

Megan revealed how you can take advantage of this travel hack - read more here.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks AB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Joining me is Meghan Singleton, blogger at large dot com.
Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I had some.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Conversation with a friend the other day who said to
me that whenever she's flying for work, she always books
a flexi ticket, and she books it for at so
often at the end of the day, and then if
she can leave early, she always changes it. And she said,
I very rarely stick to the original flight that I booked,
and I was having that flexibility around a flexi flight,

(00:40):
whereas I'm just a cheap I'm just cheap and poor,
and I just always looked with the cheapest possible option
to get me from A to B, and that's the
flight I have to go on.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, this is a little hack that I read about
on a website called New Zealand Travel Tips, so I
knew that you could get the flexi change fair on
any New Zealand we're talking, and you can change your
flights as many times as you like for just the
cost of the difference of the flight. So there is
there is a cost, but there's no change feet right,
and then those changes fluctuate. Remember it's a dynamic pricing system.

(01:11):
So here's an example of what I did back at
the beginning of the year. I booked tickets to go
to Wellington for wow but this was before we'd actually
bought our WOWE tickets. So here's a tip for our
listeners that if you do have some things that are
coming up, maybe the dates are a bit unpredictable, a
new baby is coming, or you've got a poorly parent
you need to visit often, or like this case, there's

(01:32):
an event. I haven't quite bought the tickets yet, but
I want to lock in the good prices. I went
online and I bought myself a flight to Welly from
Auckland at eight thirty pm on the Friday, and I
actually forgot until this week that it was eight thirty pm.
So I came to look at it and I went, oh,
my goodness, eight thirty that's not going to work. So haha,
I've bought the flexi change fair, haven't I? So I

(01:53):
went in and I was able to change it to
seven thirty in the morning for an additional twenty five dollars. Interestingly,
I could have gone later in the morning for three
hundred dollars. When I checked the next day, I could
have gone later in the morning for two hundred dollars.
So that's how it kind of works. Yes, so much, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. But then, as it happens, we've had a

(02:13):
family bereavement, so now I need to be in Hawk's
Bay this week as opposed to Wellington. So I didn't
know that the Flexi Change Fair also allows you to
change your destination and the date, so for no extra cost,
I'm now going to be flying to Napier in the
middle of the week and then we will all drive
to Wellington for a while. So that's a little hack.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well that's really interesting because actually that makes sense. Why
can't Why shouldn't we be able to change your gestation.
But I would never have thought of that either. I
would have thought, oh, no, this is for my flight
from Ada band yeah, that's the one I'm changing. I'd
still have to stick with that same destination. So you
can use that flight and you have any other domestic flight.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
And you simply just go in to manage my flight
on the app. Because I thought I'm going to have
to ring them and beg, you know, no, manage my
flight and then I could choose any other destination, any
other date, any other time, and you just pay the
fair difference. So as it happens, there was no fear
difference and there was no cost to me at all.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, I'm very pleased that that worked out, Megan, because
I don't think beggan is going to get you anywhere
with the airlines these days. But take care. Thank you
very much for that.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
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