ticket fare recuperation
 

Hello flyertalkers,

A year ago I bought in Cairo one of the last cheap Globel Explorertickets of 34.000 miles which also ends in Cairo. Because I'm going to spend my last travelweeks in Spain and lgo home to Belgium, there is no reason for me to fly back the last part of my ticket to Cairo. The flight to Belgium from Barcelona cost me 50 Euro and a flight from Egypt 250 Euro. So I skip this and I like to know if there is a possible refund for the unflown part Barcelona - Madrid - Cairo.

Has anybody did this before and got a refund ? Or what are the posibilities to get some money back.

Travelgreetings, Whaleshark
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No expert here, or experience with a GE, but the way I read the rules you have no chance of a refund, and by not ending your trip in CAI, as you must, you risk quite the opposite.

No chance
 

There is no chance of getting any money back. The rules for ex CAI are there to ensure that you go back to CAI. If you had bought a ticket ex BRU at a much higher price, then you would be able to go home for nothing.

RTW ticket sector prices do not bear any relation to what you can buy as single tickets on the carriers or on a low cost carrier.

You have not said how many miles you have done, or sectors in Europe to know if a re-route home would be possible. However, I would just pay the 50 Euro and get home, having saved a lot of money in the first place.

We have all done it, or are about to do it...

spotwelder

The only way you'd get a refund is a fare recalculation of the entire route that you've already travelled in full Y, J or F and if this sum is less than what you've paid for in the Global Explorer, then you'd get your money back.

FYI - a full fare ONEWAY y/J/F class CAI-LHR-JFK alone costs more than your entire Global Explorer. And yes, you must return to counrty of origin. So if you decide to end your journey somewhere else in Europe, so be it and toss the rest of the ticket away.

However, what are the rules on transferring the final seg to another passenger? ;)

Are you serious?

John McEnroe: you cannot be serious
 

I would suggest that the ticket segment is pasted into the "virtual scrapbook" of the trip as something that could have been.

A more useful item would be to keep it to the end of validity with the vain hope that you might need to go to CAI to pick up another ticket. Then you just have to use Virgin Express back to MAD and ...

If you could find someone with the same surname, then you could argue that the letters that were wrong for Christian name were allowed within the rules.

Guy Betsy and spotwelder should perhaps not be so quick to pounce. You are permitted to transfer the final segment to another passenger.

(As long as that passenger changes his/her names to yours and then has a passport issued in that name before commencing travel.)