Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
If you cancelled in the first 24 hours, the credit will go back to the orginal forms of payment -- the original FFC and credit card. Each will take a few days.
If you had waited to the post 24 hour point, you would have gotten a new FFC for the total and it would have issued in a few hours.
Originally Posted by
seawolf
If you hit the cancel button, it should then show a preview on what the refund processing is going to be (don't worry, you need to click another confirmation to actually cancel). If it indicates manuall processing, that would mean it may take a couple of days before that FFC comes back. If it doesn't mention manual processing, the FFC should be available within minutes of actually confirming the cancellation.
It took about 4.5 days to for the part-FFC part-credit card refund to come. Then I found out that you could not book a farelock reservation with an FFC. Thankfully one call to United and the agent applied the FFC to ticket the farelock reservation without question. United should really get rid of all this song and dance and simplify their currency. Travelbank, FFC, ETC - three currencies with different rules for each is terrible.