Southwest-Cancellation Policy?

[minnie56]

Anyone know the cancellation penalties w/Southwest??
Might have to cancel a flt...and never have before?

[CDNmouse]

Hmmmm ... good question as there doesn't seem to be an answer on their website. It may depend on the type of ticket you purchased. I think we got their "web special" fares and recall seeing someting about them not being refundable.

Gary

[slruud]

If you have the nonrefundable fares, they will just hold as "ticketless travel funds" which you will have a year from the date you booked your trip to use. Some have had luck calling and getting a refund to their credit cards, so it wouldn't hurt to try. There are no penalties to cancel.

[disney-super-mom]

If you have the nonrefundable fares, they will just hold as "ticketless travel funds" which you will have a year from the date you booked your trip to use. Some have had luck calling and getting a refund to their credit cards, so it wouldn't hurt to try. There are no penalties to cancel.

This is correct!:thumbsup2

If you have nonrefundable fares and cancel, the money goes into a Southwest travel fund (it's just like having a credit with Southwest), which you can use to book other flights to wherever Southwest flies. However, as slruud said, you have a year from the date you booked your original flight to use the funds. If you don't use the funds within that time, then bye-bye money.

You won't have to pay any penalties.:cool1:

[dancin Disney style]

This is correct!:thumbsup2

If you have nonrefundable fares and cancel, the money goes into a Southwest travel fund (it's just like having a credit with Southwest), which you can use to book other flights to wherever Southwest flies. However, as slruud said, you have a year from the date you booked your original flight to use the funds. If you don't use the funds within that time, then bye-bye money.

You won't have to pay any penalties.:cool1:

If you find you are unable to use the SW credit within the 1 year you can sell it or give it to someone else. There are no names attached to the credit, just a number.

[CDNmouse]

another reason I am starting to like Southwest more and more.

Gary