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Oct 26, 2009 | 3:39 pm

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Originally Posted by amimac

I'm Gold, the spouse and kid are not. If I buy flights to HNL on Alaska and then decide to cancel the trip... what happens?

Assume the flight is $300 per person.

1. Do we cancel and I (as the purchaser) get $900 as credit to use for a future flight?
2. Do we cancel and I get $300, the spouse gets $300 in her account, the kid gets $300 in her account?
3. And how do change fees work?

I'm not getting it.

Purchaser assumes control of the ticket...

Only one who gets change fees waived is the MVPG... even if you book the flight.

Now if you change that itinerary to yourself and use the ticket yourself, then AFAIK you can avoid dealing with the change fee... but that is if you end up using the ticket credit on your own flight.

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