$ 125 change or cancellation fee — Alaska waives this fee if you change or
cancel your award more than 60 days before departure, which is better than most airlines.
Alaska Airlines will waive its cancellation fees if you change or
cancel your award more than 60 days before departure, and it will waive them at any time before departure if you are using miles from the account of an MVP Gold or 75K elite member.
Not exact matches
Other airlines generally require you to purchase a much
more expensive ticket if you want to be able to
cancel it, and will charge a fee to
cancel award tickets unless you have status with that airline.
Other airlines generally require you to purchase a much
more expensive ticket if you want to be able to
cancel it, and will charge a fee to
cancel award tickets unless you have status with that airline.
It makes
more sense to
cancel and rebook — but only if you confirm that additional
award space is available.
Majority of airlines require flyers to buy
more expensive tickets if they wish to
cancel and normally charge a cancellation fee for
award bookings, unless the flyers have some status with the respective airline.
Other airlines generally require you to purchase a much
more expensive ticket if you want to be able to
cancel it, and will charge a fee to
cancel award tickets unless you have status with that airline.
For example, some carriers release much
more award space during the last few weeks or days before departure, and it won't be possible to
cancel for free at that point.
You can book all of these
awards speculatively since if you
cancel Avios
awards more than 24 hours before departure, you're only out the $ 5.60 passenger security fee.
Award flights to the U.S.
cancelled more than 24 hours before departure carry no cancellation penalty
While
cancelling any
award ticket results in a $ 90 fee, your miles will be deposited back into your account only if the flight is
cancelled more than 21 days before departure.
You could potentially use
more KrisFlyer miles to book the second seat, or, if you have the miles, make a few bookings at different dates and hope that a second
award seat opens close to the departure date and if not,
cancel it.
While a couple of seats open on some flights 330 days out, I have twice had long international flights
cancelled or schedules changed forcing me to look for new
award space, which makes me wonder whether it is better to book at 6 or 9 months out when schedules are a little
more reliable.
If the Eligible Member
cancels the Companion Ticket booking
more than twenty - four (24) hours prior to the scheduled departure of the outbound flight from Canada, British Airways will redeposit the Companion
Award eVoucher which will only be valid for the remainder of its twenty - four (24) month expiry period based on original date of issue.