Originally Posted by
bgriff
Does the no-show fee actually get billed to the passenger just for not showing up?
My understanding of no-show fees was that they are a sort of change fee / deduction against the value of your ticket, if you try to refund the remaining ticket value or apply the remaining ticket value to a new ticket after departure. But if you were going to throw away the remaining ticket value anyway, I don't think they charge the no-show fee to your credit card.
That's what people online seem to imply. They'll just charge your card or travel agent the no show fee and the only way to supposedly avoid this is by buying the ticket using cash at a KE office. I don't know how true this is but it's what people seem to suggest.
In the end I used the free 24 hour cancelation to cancel the planned throw away the ticket and then bought some SPG points (when they had the 35% sale), transferred to Delta and booked the same flight as a reward redemption for the same price (about $10 more pp) as the earlier throwaway ticket. Whilst I won't earn miles (only 100 miles anyway), it does give the benefit of being able to select a seat something which the cheap KE tickets don't allow.