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Old Oct 23, 2014 | 11:11 am
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Originally Posted by Often1
It's not a US "policy". It is US law. DOT requires all US carriers and all carriers on tickets to/from the US to offer either a 24-hour fee free cancellation or a 24-hour hold on tickets purchased 7+ days out.
Since you want to play semantics, it actually is a policy. The law requires an either/or and the choice to offer a cancellation rather than hold is a policy decision by the individual carriers.
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