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    "this makes it cheaper to reschedule since you only pay once, to cancel since there is only one cancellation fee" This is only true if you have to change or cancel both flights in the trip. If you only want to change one flight, it's usually cheaper to buy a totally new one-way ticket than to pay $50 to upgrade your ticket to a changeable one and pay the $200 change fee. Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 18:27
  • That clearly depends where you fly. In my whole life I have had only one ticket under $50 and less than ten under $250 compared to hundreds over and by much most of the time. Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 18:34
  • That's because you're buying round-trip tickets. I'm talking about one-way tickets. Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 18:36
  • A round-trip ticket if often more expensive than a single one-way ticket! Even so, all tickets I have bought under $250 were all one-way tickets. I usually look for them to get flexible travel planning but many times end up with embedded round-trips to save money. Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 18:48
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    Oops. I meant the other way around and, yes, I do find it very frustrating. Going from Montreal to Madrid for example one-way is often more expensive than going from Montreal to Madrid and back, even though it's half the flight! This is an example I found last month but I have seen this countless of times. Commented Nov 2, 2017 at 19:07