Charge mother for airline award ticket cancellation fee?
I regularly book award tickets for my mother to fly for leisure trips, always in first class. I use my airline miles. Airline rules prohibit selling or bartering miles, so she can't pay me for the ticket.
This time, she decided to cancel the trip that she had booked for Thanksgiving. I was also going to fly with her for Thanksgiving. Rescheduling my ticket was $200 plus extra ticket costs of about $175 more, and I had to pay the airline $150 to get my miles back from her cancelled ticket. So my total costs are $525 since my mother decided to cancel her trip.
Would you ask to at least be paid the $150 airline fee for cancelling her ticket and getting the miles back?
We al have plenty of money, but my parents would charge me for that. I really dislike stinginess though.
Thats up to you but you might have an angry mother around
And you think that all the food you ate, and all the clothes you wore, and all the toys you played with as a child were free? They added up to well more than $525. As you say, you have plenty of money, it's not like you family will end up on the street.
No, I would not. It would be worth more than $500 to me to keep a good relationship with my parents.
If you don't need the money then I wouldn't make an issue of it.
She should know there are fees so don't book her tickets anynore.
If she was my mother, she'd be going on that trip whether she wanted to or not so help me god! Plus, why is she using your miles if she has money?
And what the hell is more important than flying somewhere first class for free?
I think it would have been more than fair to let her know that there would be fees involved when she informed you she was cancelling. It's not like $5 or $10. A $500 fee would be significant to anyone
That's a family dynamic and has nothing to do with travel or the Travel section. Try reposting in a more relevant section. In the end, nobody has the same relationship with your family as you do.
Didn't you ever explain to your mother that while you were happy to use your miles on her, there would be penalties payable if she cancelled one of these trips?
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