Originally Posted by
Nekamah7
Understood, but my understanding is that even though the fee is $40, ppl usually only lose the few $$ of taxes, and that no fee is charged in the US.
If the taxes were less than the cancellation fee of USD40/GBP25/whatever else in the country concerned, which is unusual on international flights but not unheard of, then they will only charge the full amunt of the taxes you paid but not ask you to pay the difference to the cancellation fee.
Obviously, if the taxes were more than the cancellation fee then you'd just get the difference back.