Originally Posted by
JapanFlyerT
I have seen a few posts, but nothing very specific recently.
My sister has $600 which will expire on the 30th of this month.
Voucher is valid till end of August, but no mention about when flights must be taken. Should give us another 330 days.
1. Buy something refundable, perhaps for around $650, and see if the total gets refunded to her credit card. Problem is finding such a fare. So far everything I find is $1000 or more.
2. Buy a ticket to Australia (where I am now), though that seems unlikely given the $2700 ballpark coming up to Sydney. I am in Perth and those prices are $7000 in econ! Better to use Star Alliance miles for that.
3. Buy a $600 domestic or cheap international to Europe for unknown dates, gambling on a future use. Might need to pay a change fee, but better than losing all $600.
Anyone with recent experience on going over an expiration on a voucher?
Many thanks.
1. Will defiantly not work. The form of payment will show as the E Cert so it wont be given back to a credit card. And the of expiry of the E-cert will also be shown, so it would just be lost value. If a E Cert/or voucher is refunded, it's refunded back to an E Cert with ORIGINAL date of expiry. Airlines figured out the trick to try and get around this years ago.
The easy and most prudent answer here is for sis to figure out where she wants to go and book that.. you have about 10 days to figure it out.