Sunday Reader Question: How to Refund Aeroplan Ticket Within 22 Days Before Departure
Aeroplan award tickets are generally refundable. However, Aeroplan has a pesky term that states
Unused and valid flight rewards may be refunded and miles reinstated up to 22 days before the scheduled date of departure. A C$90.00 fee plus taxes per ticket will apply. This fee is non-refundable.
What does this mean? If you cancel an award 22 days or more before departure, you get your points and money back, less a $90 refund fee. If you cancel your award anywhere from 2 hours (the most last minute cancellation you’re allowed to do) to 22 days before departure, you won’t get a refund of your points or taxes and fees paid. What Aeroplan does with this ticket is allow you to use the value of the ticket for a future booking within a year for the named passenger. It’s like a refund, however, the ticket has to be used within a year, and if you don’t use the entire value of the ticket, and only a portion thereof, you forfeit the rest.
There is a way to get a refund of your ticket even if you cancel within 22 days before departure. Our Sunday Reader Question is: how do you refund an Aeroplan award ticket within 22 days before departure?
As explained above, a normal cancellation within 22 days before departure provides you with the opportunity to use that ticket’s value within a year. It may be that you don’t wish to travel within the year, use the value on a different passenger, or your desired travel is cheaper than the original ticket value, and you don’t want to forfeit the remaining value. There’s a way to skirt this term: if you rebook a ticket using the ticket’s value (try to use it all!), and book that more than 22 days before departure, you can then refund that ticket and get a full refund of the points and fees. You will, however, be subject to two $90 change fees: the first fee for reusing the original ticket, and the second fee for refunding the second ticket. Although it’s an expensive option, it may be your best-bet if you’re having trouble using the previously cancelled ticket value in full.
Wow earth shuttering way of throwing 180 down the drain for nothing.
Legally they will give you the taxes back on flights not flown.
Rafet,
Perhaps you didn’t understand the article. It is not 180$ down the drain for nothing. It is to avoiding losing all of the miles and fees you originally spent on the ticket which can easily be 100,000 points plus 600$ in fuel surcharge plus taxes(but the taxes might be reimbursed regardless).
In theory you could cancel up until departure (the 2 hour is just an online restriction)
This refund trick is well known for Aeroplan agents and they will usually offer this option upfront
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