What is the penalty for staying less than a minimum stay?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 30 Jul, 2023
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If KLM Ticketed your itinerary, meaning they processed the payment and issued tickets for the flights, you’re fine. They check all these rules beforehand and would not even let you book an invalid fare.
The “minimum stay” is only important before you buy the ticket, or when you change a plane ticket. You would not be able to buy a ticket without your itinerary meeting the relevant requirements.
The “minimum stay” requirement is part of the technical construction of a plane ticket. It means the minimum time at the fare destination you must spend, according to the ticketed itinerary, for the fare to be valid. (The idea is that people who want to stay for less than seven days are probably business travellers, who are willing to pay a lot more for their plane tickets than tourists. So the cheap tourist fares have a 7 day minimum stay requirement. The business traveller who insists that he goes home to see his family at the weekend pays a lot more for his ticket.)
It is not a requirement that you must physically stay in Barcelona for seven days. You can leave Barcelona if you like. You can even take another KLM flight somewhere else, as long as you don’t change your existing ticket. There is no penalty if you travel somewhere else as long as you don’t change your existing flight tickets.
If you need to change your flight ticket to stay in Europe for less than seven days, the repricing will require you to use a different fare which could be much more expensive.
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