We, too, seem to have gotten lucky. Only younger S home tested two days after we got back before going to a friend’s for NYE. But no symptoms for any of us.
Of course, I come back to work and the guy who sit across from me - his family has it. Or his wife & baby have it. He was going to get tested, but no symptoms. Same for his older daughter. Co-worker had it last year and one shot. His wife was reluctant but I thought she was going for her first dose a couple of weeks ago. I hope she did get it. Supposedly, 4 days later, they are improving.
And I’ve also heard about two other people on my floor who have it running through their houses. Yay. (sarcasm)
Apparently, that isn’t the case for all fares. The cheapest “Wanna Get Away®” fare, which most leisure travelers book, isn’t refundable. That, I believe, means taxes paid when booking that same fare with points are only credited to your travel fund account for future use within 1 year of original ticket issuance:
When you cancel a fare booked with points, the remaining point balance will be refunded to the account from which they were booked. Any taxes and fees will be eligible for a refund.
Yes, but the last sentence didn’t specify what form the refund will be in. In my cases (I’ve cancelled so many times in the last two years), I’ve always received the taxes/fees I paid in travel fund.
I’m with @Twoin18
Always able to get my taxes refunded to my credit card even with booking wanna get away fare with points. I have to choose back to credit card because the default choice is travel funds.
I’ve done this so many times in the last few years.
I am certain that taxes on any fare reserved with points is refundable to the credit card it was paid with. I have been successfully booking a ton of flights given the covid uncertainty and getting taxes refunded.
For those that spring for a Platinum AMEX card, southwest can be marked as your airline for incidentals to spend 200$ on. Taxes for flights have been considered incidentals.
On website and on APP both work. I heard rumors UT Austin is considering remote for the first week or two. If that happens, I will be cancelling one of S21’s flights back and will screenshot the option. It will be for a wanna get away fare using points.
Southwest refunds the travel points to the account, taxes to the credit card. Southwest doesn’t sell $11.50 in points (I think the minimum is $50 or $100 in points), and don’t want to play games with people getting more points in their accounts than they started with.
I’ve done it many times, for tickets in my name and in the names of my kids using my points. ALWAYS get the taxes back on the credit card, even if it is a SW credit card. If they didn’t do this, I’d get the points from the purchase on the credit card ($11.50) and the $11.50 worth of points as a refund - a $23ish swing (it is not always 1 to 1 points earned).
what they don’t refund or (usually) transfer is if you paid the ~$25 early boarding fee. That’s just gone.
Here is the screen shot. I think it is a recent change to force you to make a choice, the default used to be a credit. Not sure if the screenshot will upload correctly. It’s from the webpage.
I learned the hard way, not only is the early boarding fee gone, so are any fees for unaccompanied minors. Pre-pandemic when my kiddos would fly to visit grandparents, I always booked the flight with them and then cancelled at the last minute, paying the 50$ only when I was sure the trip would happen.
I won’t be paying cash or points for my next trip (or two?) this year as I got a few hundred $ worth of LUV voucher for getting stuck in that cancellation mess about 3 months ago.
This is why you’re not getting a refund to the credit card. Once you’ve made a change to a ticket, those taxes are now considered part of the entire ticket and the entire amount is a travel fund. What you need to do is straight up cancel the original award ticket, don’t mess around with changing the ticket. That way you’ll have the option of getting the refund to a credit card. Once you alter a ticket, you’ve lost that option going forward.
Yes, flights under 100 did come up as an incidental. Had to use that late 2020 to spend the incidentals.
You can change an award flight multiple times and still get the refund to the credit card. you just have to ensure you never choose a refund (if the taxes are lower on a rebooked flight) in the form of travel funds.
