What is this about #7 and 'partial refund' ? Can you no longer get a 100% refund via an MCO for an unused portion of your flight ? MCO = miscellaneous charges order and can be -or were- issued to any IATA carrier, good for transportation by air, bus, on any other IATA member. They are - or were - especially beneficial when you are using a ticket written by someone else... like your employer. If you turn in the ticket for credit, the airline will refund to whoever paid for the ticket, like your employer. But if you exchange the unused ticket for an MCO, it is issued to the ticket holder and can be used as payment for future transportation. I had a college buddy who made a summer job of taking job interviews in distant cities where the interviewing firm paid the expenses (those were the days!) and he altered his destinations en route and kept the difference in future air tickets. And additionally, he got round trip tickets from home, for 3 interviews a week, but then changed destinations mid-flight, Each firm bought him RT tickets, so he made out quite well as a summer job, essentially getting paid to travel. But then, his skill was in demand and he could do that. I later worked with another world-class sneak who would travel on the company's tab to jobsites around the world, taking a first-class ticket. (It was policy that if we traveled more than 8 hours, we could go first class - those were the days !). So he would get his ticket first-class and then, since the employer paid for ticket he couldn't get a refund in cash, he would fly coach class and get an MCO for the difference, which at the time was 2X - 3X the cost of coach. He'd spend the MCO paying for flights to vacation destinations on the way back. Anyone know if MCOs are still available ?

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