Originally Posted by
KNRG
As far as I know, isn't WN the only airline that will refund part of a RT ticket in a proportional manner if you don't use the full ticket?
Like, most airlines calculate fares as A-B-C with A-B being front heavy in price with B-C costing next to nothing. Thus, if you fly just A-B you get next to nothing back for B-C, but WN is the airline that doesn't front load fares making it unique.
And in terms of an international fare, irrelevent. Most airlines will do A-B front loaded in price.
Not really. If you are really flying a r/t ticket it isn't that the front end is heavily weighted in the price but more that the change fee and potential re-price to a one-way itinerary make the fares for the one way close to or higher than the r/t price. It is possible that the first segment costs more than the second, but that isn't always the case. You have to look at the details of the fare to know for sure.
But getting a refund is a different issue than getting residual value from the ticket.