Originally Posted by
GW McLintock
You asked a lot here so I am breaking it down by question.
You can cancel until the flight starts boarding. I generally use one hour before departure as rule of thumb. You will have to cancel check-in (which you can do on the app or line in a matter of seconds) and then cancel the ticket (which can also be done online, but I don't recall if it can be done through the app; if you call or use chat, there is a $25 fee). Make sure you leave enough time.
See above. You already asked this a different way, but it's the same question.
Travel Bank will be good for one year from date of purchase.
As long as you are on a Blue or higher fare, you can cancel up to an hour-ish before departure and get a Travel Bank. The 7 days before departure rule is only for the 24-hour cash refund. You can still get a Travel Bank credit.
JetBlue does not have change fees for Blue and higher fares. Where are you getting this information from?
Per
this page (the very first result when I googled "jetblue change fees"):
I don't know the specifics but one way or another you would get the money back in the form of a Travel Bank. I'm not sure if it would be a single $280 TB or a $250 TB and a $30 TB. It shouldn't really make a difference.
Again there are no change fees. AFAIK the $100 fee is made up, unless you are talking about the nonrefundable DR tax or something similar to wherever you're flying if applicable. That is not a fee, it is a tax or duty required by a foreign government, and has nothing to do with JetBlue. In that case it would be deducted from the Travel Bank ($280 - 100 = $180, or if it is in fact broken up with the bags then it would be from the TB for the airfare, so $250 - 100 = $150).
-J.
Thanks for the response. Okay so the you won't get a refund back if you cancel or change the flight it it departures in less than 7 days is only for a credit card refund to your original payment? If so, okay that makes sense.
I am surprised that if you purchased a jetblue blue ticket, you could actually cancel it on the day of the departure before it starts boarding and you get the travelbank. So wouldn't that mean if you are going to be late and can't make it on time for check in, let say it's 2.5 hours from your departure and you have to show up 2 hours before your international flight or say it's 1.5 hours from your domestic flight and it's 1 hour before your domestic flight and you not going to make it to check in with checked luggage, you could cancel it on the phone and get travel bank? If so, that is amazing. You say the cutoff time is an hour before departure but it's before it departs but say you have to get there in 30 minutes but you can't, well you cancel it and you getting travel bank seems nice. Is jetblue more lenient with this than the other airlines like delta and american even if you book main cabin there? Getting to cancel on the day of departure and until the flight starts boarding seems to be a lot.
You mention about first cancelling your check in first. I am confused by this. I never check in on the app, I check in when I get there. So this wouldn't apply to me right? It doesn't make sense to check in at home or a hotel first right before you get to the airport unless you have no checked bags? If you have checked bags, you should always check in there at the airport? Reason is because in case you are going to be late or can't make it for your flight, well you didn't check in yet on the phone so just cancel it and get travelbank?
Also wouldn't this mean if you find a jetblue ticket as a good price and you going to buy jetblue blue, you could just purchase it to lock it up at that price? So even to the day before or the day of departure if you don't want to fly, you could then cancel it for travel bank ticket? Or say few days later after you book a jetblue blue flight and notice a lower price around the days you were to going to fly but you don't need to fly that exact day, say you want whatever is the lowest if it's possible, well now you can cancel and rebook or change it and you use the travel bank and you now have an additional travelbank? Or if you just want to change the day well you can do that? Does delta or american allow the same? This seems like you have lot of options when booking a jetblue blue ticket since you cancel and still get travelbank.
Was jetblue always lenient with this when booking jetblue blue? So all those restrictions you get is with jetblue basic and the basic cabin when it comes to delta and american right?