Changing your mind, your plans and your tickets is increasingly costly for travelers, and more lucrative for travel businesses. But new airline passenger rights go into effect Jan. 12, which allow travelers to hold a reservation without payment or to cancel it without a penalty for 24 hours after the reservation is made.
For travel plans, buy-right-now seems utterly inappropriate. Booking plane tickets in particular brings with it so many other considerations: Can you get a hotel room for those dates? Can the other members of your group travel those particular days and times? Will someone be available to take you to the airport for that departure time? Have you forgotten that you need to be at work, or that you already have tickets to a concert on one of those days? Changing your mind, your plans and your tickets is increasingly costly for travelers, and more lucrative for travel businesses - not just airlines, but throughout the industry. There is some good news when it comes to air travel. New passenger rights go into effect Jan. 12. They allow travelers to hold a reservation without payment or to cancel it without a penalty for 24 hours after the reservation is made, if the reservation is made more than a week before the flight’s departure date.
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