We selected 13 accessible, first-party traveler documents because they describe different schedule-change options. 28 specific options are coded below. This is a purposive illustration, not an airline census, a generosity ranking, or an estimate of how often an option exists. American’s two refund cases come from one FAQ answer: a three/four-hour domestic/international change and a separate 90-minute change within 72 hours of departure. Both use conditional wording and differ from the DOT’s own test. We include Finnair’s schedule-change refund bullet even though that source does not say how far ahead notice arrives; flydubai’s rows use only its more-than-72-hours branch. JAL’s cited page addresses involuntary schedule changes and cancellations together, and its two rows retain that shared scope. Delta’s rows use its more-than-72-hours schedule-change branch; they keep a possible fare difference and its older-ticket footnote visible. LATAM’s U.S.-connected section combines cancellation and rescheduling. The Qantas rows record possibilities shown to travelers, not guaranteed remedies; Jetstar’s selected refund clause depends on the reason for the change and uses scheduled departure time. The Alaska/Hawaiian rows come from their shared passenger contract and separate an affected-ticket refund from a lower-cabin fare-difference refund. Avelo’s three rows come from one traveler help section; its exactly-three-hour and calendar-date wording remains unresolved.
A time threshold, a window for the new flight, and a deadline for using an online form answer different questions. “Not publicly specified in this reviewed option” is limited to that section, not a claim that the airline has no rule elsewhere. A voucher is not the same as a payment-method refund. The separate U.S. DOT educational checker describes a regulatory test, not airline rebooking flexibility.
The selection is intentionally small and nonrandom. We manually read each linked traveler document on October 4, 2026, paraphrased only the listed clauses, and kept mixed event types and narrow ticket rules visible. We excluded cancellation-only terms, agency-only instructions, and temporary event waivers from these rows. This table does not decide rights for an itinerary; check the live airline source and applicable law before acting or reporting. The broader policy index and public methodology explain source selection and correction handling.
Version 2026-10-04.8 adds two separately scoped refund cases from American’s nonrefundable-ticket FAQ. The FAQ says American may refund a ticket when a traveler decides not to travel after either described change; it gives no direction for the time shift in that answer. The four-hour international case is American’s wording, not a replacement for the separate U.S. DOT six-hour time test. Version 2026-10-04.7 added Avelo’s three listed traveler options in one schedule-change help section. The page does not settle the exact-three-hour boundary or explain the heading’s separate calendar-date phrase; its contract and applicable DOT refund criteria have different roles. Version 2026-10-04.6 added two clauses from the Alaska/Hawaiian shared passenger contract: a conditional affected-segment refund and a lower-cabin fare-difference refund. The contract’s three-hour time definition is distinct from the U.S. DOT test; its Rule 8 B groups cancellation, delay and changed-flight events. Version 2026-10-04.5 added two possible Qantas traveler choices and one conditional Jetstar refund clause. Qantas does not define a numeric trigger in the reviewed flight-change section; Jetstar’s three-hour phrase measures scheduled departure and remains subject to event-control and other conditions. This is a comparison of selected public wording, not a carrier ranking. Version 2026-10-04.4 added three LATAM U.S.-connected options from its traveler FAQ. That source combines cancellation and rescheduling, uses two different 12-month phrases for different purposes, and does not state a numeric schedule-change trigger in the reviewed options. Version 2026-10-04.3 added three Delta traveler-page options for an advance significant schedule change; its alternative-flight search may involve a fare difference, and an older-ticket refund footnote applies separately. Version 2026-10-04.2 added two JAL options with international ticket scope. Version 2026-10-04.1 contained the first ten options. These are dataset releases, not claims that an airline changed its policy on the publication date.
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