Crap!!! I thought as much . Just cancelled TLS-MUC-KRK-FRA booked in W for $357 CAD.

It was kind of weird as when I talked to an LH rep last week, I was told that the taxes were refundable but that I would lose the fare price. He also told me that the only way you can transfer the cost of the ticket to future travel is if you book your itin prior to the date of scheduled travel on the original ticket.

Not having any future travel on LH in the pipeline and with KRK definately off, I called in yesterday to cancel, figuring I'd get my ~$130 CAD in taxes back and was told by the rep that, nope, you forfeit the entire cost of the ticket

Good news is that I still have YUL-FRA-TLS-FRA-YUL to rack up status miles. At least I think so as it is all booked in V class.

Combined with YUL-MCO-CAE-YUL in October and a couple YUL-YYZ flights, I should have a minimum if 41K status miles so looks like I'm AC*E for at least one more year.