01-27-2019
01:40 PM
01-27-2019
01:40 PM
@tenminutemile wrote: Perhaps you could at least allow travel funds to be used if they are not expired at time of booking. I just learned the hard way that I can't use my travel funds, which don't expire for 5 more months, for a ticket I'm booking today, because the flight is in 6 months. Not cool. I'm not sure of all the motivations that lead up to the fact that the airlines don't want (can't?) have reservations that far into the future between accounting, security, profit, etc. Southwest has offered unofficially to convert an expired travel fund into a voucher for a fee, if you end up in this scenario you'd get a six-month extension to use the value of the funds, minus the fee which has been reported at $100 recently. This applies per Travel Fund, so you wouldn't want to have this happen to a bunch of small travel funds, it wouldn't be worth converting them if the value is not much more than $100. One downside of this is that you can't get the voucher until the funds actually have expired, so you can't plan as far out to use it, and it may or may not be offered or the fee may increase by the time the expiration rolls around.
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