They could have changed flights with no fee in the first 24 hours. They had no desire to nor did they ever apologize or say thanks for my efforts to accommodate them. I knew going in that out of the 8 of us they would be the 2 that posed all the problems. As you get older, I'm 52, your friends start to dwindle. At least in my case. At that age it's divorces, second marriages, kids in college.