In your good peoples experience is it cheaper to purchase an open ticket to Manila or a separate there and return ticket. The problem is I'm hoping to get married in April but unless the annulment comes through I will shorten my holiday in order to take another later on in the year. So basically not sure whether it will be a 7 week break ( if annulment arrives) or 3-4 weeks. Really hope that makes some sense! Thanks in advance for your advice.
An open ticket can be quite expensive, best to buy a ticket that permits a flight change for a small fee.
In order to enter the Philippines you must have a return ticket, or an onward ticket, otherwise the check in staff at your departure airport will most likely prevent you boarding your flight to the Philippines. Check Here at KLM or via your normal airline website.
I normally fly KLM, most flight tickets apart from the lowest cost fares can be changed for about £100 maximum. Check the fare details when booking.
changing the date of flights used to be a lot cheaper than it is now. Sometimes, although admittedly it was rare, they charged no fee at all. Once, I memorably walked into a Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Airlines office and said hey I don't feel like going to Melbourne on Wednesday like I thought I would, so can you make it on Friday please? They said certainly sir, and no fee was charged. typically the fee was levied in US dollars - $50 0r $100 and you paid that in cash sometimes, at check in. Once in Johannesburg I had to shell out $100 in SA rand to get on a flight which date I had previously changed by phone but didn't have a credit card to pay it at the time, to an Italian check in person at the airport - the airline was Alitalia. sometimes it was in not dollars but GB pounds though, and it could be quite low - even 25 or 50 pounds. Now almost impossible to get lower than 100 pounds. It seemed to increase by a lot, like not a few things, very soon after the 2008 financial crisis. always check this when you book because some flights don't allow date change at all.
