Outbound 500 Inbound 500 // Cancel inbound flight [closed]

So I'm looking to buy a ticket for my gf to come to Canada and she'd have to get a back home ticket. We would eventually get her papers in order to allow her to stay but then we'd have to cancel the inbound ticket.

I'm not a big fan of losing all the money.

Do you have any advice on how to get the best deal on this?

I have with Lufthansa a couple of options:

~500 outbound and 500 inbound - loose all money

~500 outbound and 900 inbound (in case of cancelation I lose 70 Eur + fare difference)

What would that fare difference mean anyways?

Thank you a lot for your help

canada

Best Answer

Fare difference means that if you rebook the ticket you have to pay for the difference in fare. So if you buy a $900 ticket, cancel the reservation, and then use it for a $1200 flight, you'd have to pay $300 for the fare difference in addition to the change fee and other fees and taxes.

This doesn't apply if the fare is refunded to you, of course.

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Answer 2

In addition to phoogs excellent answer, there is a gotcha when it comes to return tickets.

If you buy your outbound and return flights as part of the same ticket, so a return ticket, and you cancel either portion of the ticket, the other portion will often be re-ticketed as a single and the appropriate fare difference will be applied.

So, if you paid $500 for the outbound and $900 for the return as part of the same ticket, and you cancelled the $900 return portion, then the airline will look to see what price the $500 outbound portion should have been as a single.

If the single for the same portion was being sold for $1000, then you would get back the following:

500 + 900 = 1400 (this is the total you paid)

1400 - 1000 = 400 (this is the re-ticketing of the outbound)

400 - 70 = 330 (this is the residual value)

So in my above example, you would get back $330 (perhaps a bit more if airport taxes and fees are considered separately).

Note that the figures I use are an example - you would need to speak to the airline to see just what the actual figures might be.

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