Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
Besides the issue of needing to reprice the flown segment if you don't take the return or something similar that others explain, you are bound by the agreement with the TA which may impose additional restrictions.
In some cases while the TA billed you , the TA may have used an alternative payment methods to purchase the ticket. So the refund may have to go to the TA first. Plus the TA may have change or processing fees. Generally changes should have been processed by the TA, not UA.
Is it not possible to pay the $50 fee for UA to take over the ticket? I thought that if you did that UA had full control and could cancel it into a credit on their end without involving the TA. Unfortunately if anything goes back to the TA it will never make its way to me.
Originally Posted by
jsloan
That's not going to work unless there was a big schedule change somewhere.
There's no "money" here.
No, of course not.
What you're trying to do is impossible, which is why it hasn't worked.
If you want a credit for your return flights, you either have to accept the restrictions on them -- you can use them for travel to the origin country -- or first they have to be re-fared as one-way flights. The former is what the UA representative offered.
I have a feeling a refare of the flown segments as a one way would be significantly less than the total ticket cost. If I request for it to be repriced as two one ways can I get the value of what was the return less the additional cost of the refare on the outbound as a UA travel credit that isn't restricted by either the TA or origin?