You might try canceling it. When I cancelled mine, United told me that they had a fee waiver in place for flights right now, and refunded the entire fee. > On Mar 11, 2020, at 8:13 PM, Toerless Eckert <tte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for the info > > And travellers can probably get double whammy: > > Last november? (i think) i had something like 5 flights cancelled on me, > one being a United FRA-SFO because probably of broken machine. This > was a return leg, but even though it as non-refundable, my company > get a refund for that return leg because United cancelled it. > > I am not 100% sure though if airlines can try to escape this refund > if the airline doesn't want to and offer a rebooking. I think it may > be a matter of rules of the ticket, aka: not sure what my company got > is a MUST. > > The other refund would be due to european passenger rights. United > offered me either the cash EUR 600 or 900 USD in United travel value. > That money according to european law is the right of the > traveller not the entity that has paid for the flight. > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:17:10PM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: >> The US has just announced a travel ban from the EU. Travel from the UK is >> not banned yet but expect that to change in the next few days as the >> results come in from the expanded testing regime that was brought in a few >> days back. >> >> This will almost certainly mean a lot of IETF-ers are now entitled to >> refunds as their US connections are cancelled. And most likely the airlines >> will be getting some sort of government financial support like they did in >> the wake of 9/11. >> >> Canada has not yet followed suit but it is surely only a matter of days >> before they do. For planning purposes I would assume that there is a >> significant probability international travel is suspended entirely sometime >> next week. So we can probably expect further refund opportunities. > > -- > --- > tte@xxxxxxxxx >
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