Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
It's likely that the A is nonrefundable and has a $200 change fee if it's a domestic route. The P might or not be nonrefundable/nonchangeable, largely dependent on how expensive it was. Many (most?) markets have restricted and nonrestricted P fares.
BTW, are you really concerned about refundability, meaning that you get a refund to the original (credit card) means of payment possibly after paying a fee, or do you mean changeable, meaning that you get a DL credit toward another ticket, again possibly after paying a fee. These are technically different concepts.
Well, for openers, we're both UA 1K, but in this instance, because of a more favorable schedule to the particular destination, opted to use Delta for this trip. So, in order of preference *if* we have to cancel, would like full refund, otherwise would accept a credit for a future trip (dunno when, but better than nothing). That said, I find Delta's receipt opaque about the fare basis. For example, in another thread there was a reference to an 8-character fare basis code where the 7th character indicates refundability, but how/where can you find that code? The maddening thing is the phrase "This ticket is nonrefundable unless issued at a fully refundable fare" Huh ... what does that mean, a generalization or a specific to this ticket?? Anyhow, the trip is SEA-SLC-STL & return ... does this help (A) outbound, (P) return.