{"id":8514,"date":"2008-07-18T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2022-05-17T00:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:22:34","slug":"are-non-refundable-airline-tickets-refundabl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/are-non-refundable-airline-tickets-refundabl\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Non-Refundable Airline Tickets Refundable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>We are planning to purchase non-refundable airline tickets. Expedia told us the tickets are refundable &#8211; we would lose only the handling fee (around $200) but keep the face value and we must use it in next year. Does that mean if we cancel our trip for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/what-does-trip-cancellation-travel-insurance-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">covered reason<\/a>, we might not get full cash refund of our air ticket? Mimi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hi Mimi, this is a common question since there&#8217;s so much misinformation about what part, if any, of an airline ticket is refundable.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Expedia told you the tickets are refundable, the truth is they are non-refundable. Otherwise, why would they force you to pay a change fee instead of refunding your money? In reality, you will never get you your money back if you can&#8217;t travel. If you choose to pay the approximately $200 handling fee, you can re-use your tickets within one year. The big drawback to paying the handling fee is if you cannot travel within the year because the tickets are non-transferable to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to one of our pre-screened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/get-a-quote.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">travel insurance plans<\/a>, which, if you cancel your trip for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/what-does-trip-cancellation-travel-insurance-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">covered reason<\/a>, you are reimbursed you based on what you actually paid out of pocket for your tickets (assuming you insured the trip&#8217;s prepaid non-refundable trip cost), not the just change fee.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this article to help you decide which route to take: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/cancel-your-plane-ticket-or-pay-the-change-fee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cancel Your Plane Ticket Or Pay The Change Fee?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/what-is-your-trip-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to find out what else should be included in the Trip Cost<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe We are planning to purchase non-refundable airline tickets. Expedia told us the tickets are refundable &#8211; we would lose only the handling fee (around $200) but keep the face value and we must use it in next year. Does that mean if we cancel our trip for a covered reason, we might not get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}