Originally Posted by
Wil973
Once i booked a ticket for a friend.....
But i dont know how she missed the flight ..all in economy...
So i messaged airfrance to get the taxes...
And they said something like flight was overbooked i dont remember and they refunded all my 1500 euros which is crazy since my friend was soo late that he didnt even go to the airport...
Since that day i never cancelled before
If you spent €1500 on an economy ticket, then it was pretty likely to have been a fully-flexible fare. These sort of tickets tend to retain their value even after a no-show, which is not the case for the vast majority of economy tickets sold.
Do not base a strategy on this sort of "outlier" - this sort of outcome would not happen if you had a cheap APEX €299 ticket. Bear in mind that the OP was talking about a ticket with a base fare of £1. For longhaul....