Originally Posted by
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Update to the above DP and possibly some new specificity. I have 2 eCredits ($10 + $30) that expire 12/31/23. Last night I used them to book a Main Cabin ticket LAX-LAS for $75 (as far as I know the cheapest Delta main cabin ticket). This morning I canceled the ticket (within 24 hours) and it offered me the options to take $75 eCredit which it clearly showed would be expiring 9/15/24 (one year from booking) or the option to refund to original payment methods. I chose the latter to see if my $10 + $30 would get extended, but they did not - still expiring 12/31/23. So I'm guessing that what happened with my wife's tickets back in May is that she was offered the same 2 options, chose the first option "get eCredit", and thereby extended her expiry dates.
I think Delta may have recently made a change. I used 12/31/23 expiring eCredits to book a future flight, put the rest on a credit card. I needed to cancel and selected refund as eCredits. Credits were extended to 1 year from date of purchase (mid 2024 in this case).
Just a week or two ago I did the same for my parents trying to extend their certificates that expire 12/31/23 and when refunded they reverted to 12/31/23, even the portion that I had paid with a credit card and should definitely have had a mid 2024 expiration.