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Apr 22, 2022 | 8:23 am

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Originally Posted by truncated

Question for those who know better than me — AIUI if UA cancels your flight you can get a refund even on a nonrefundable ticket, so theoretically wouldn't it be possible to convert a nonrefundable credit into $$ by booking a flight for a day with weather that would almost certainly end up being cancelled (e.g. something like the last LGA-IAD of the day when there's thunderstorms on the northeast, or DEN-ASE the day of a snowstorm), and then getting the refund when the cancellation happens?

Refund is to the original form of payment, i.e. ETC. (I think?)

Regardless, making a habit of this would crate a pretty obvious fraudulent pattern in an audit.

Last edited by WineCountryUA; Apr 22, 2022 at 12:02 pm Reason: Added quote due to merge of different topic

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