[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by molson

I'm going to argue in front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for the first time this spring - which would be a super exciting thing - except that they scheduled it during a planned vacation with my girlfriend to Japan - and apparently they don't let you change dates except for extraordinary circumstances, and I can't really wait indefinitely to see if they'd let me or not. So we'll see how forgiving United is with change fees - $600 between the two of us.....apparently you're almost always screwed in these circumstances but I'm going to give it a shot and send them a bunch of documentation with the reason for the change. I'm reading some anecdotal stuff on message boards that you have a shot if there's a court subpoena or something and this is pretty similar. I feel like my odds are better doing an email request with attached documentation than getting some random phone rep.

Congrats on the OA!

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