I have to cancel a BA award flight that was 80k points + $1,200 (for all taxes and fees). 2 tickets round trip. Will the $1,200 come back as refund on my credit card or as a British Airways voucher? I can’t figure it out on their website.

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Should be a normal refund

Also FYI you can avoid those taxes and fees if you fly out of Inverness instead of London, and take a US airline to the UK. I can’t in good conscience recommend paying that much for a “free” ticket. I ended up paying 390 one way in business out on Inverness, still not great but not 700+ each way.

No there’s no good way to fly BA to the UK without fees. Flights from Hong Kong work as fuel surcharges are illegal. I’d fly United or AA or Singapore if possible, but know saver space is hard to come by. Flying out of the UK Inverness is exempt by law from paying the UK passenger duty tax (Glasgow and Edinburgh are lowlands so still subject to the tax). So I flew INV-LHR-ORD in business for 57,500 AA +390$. But if you were to fly to the UK at LHR then connect you’d still get hit with 700$+ per person one way.

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