<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by AAlton:
From what I gather from your post, United Airlines and Delta Airlines do this as well, but with the added restriction of the inventory having to be available?</font>
Frankly, that's the only times I have availed myself with those airlines. Once with UA it was for a whopping 11 or 12 bucks. The same fare class was still available as the refunds took place within days of the original purchase. But I'm not sure if anybody at DL or UA told me that was a requirement or not or if I was just preparing for battle ahead of time by making sure I met the adv purchase reqs, fare class evailable, same flights and times, etc.
When I've received refunds from AA and AS (my main carriers) I've always received them as vouchers so that the change fees wouldn't apply. I didn't know that AA was regularly refunding to credit cards without subtracting applicable change fees.