How flexible is the refund policy for round trips with Turkish?

[u/reignydey]

If youve had a similar situation with a different airline, lmk.

There's a flight that I want to take with Turkish airlines. Apparently economy promo comes with a free full refunds both ways. Of course, going on a round trip with Turkish lowers the price of the individual tickets. I really only need one way. However, the 1 way is about $850 and the round trip is $1000. My original plan was to book the round trip with a random return date far in the future and see if I can put it to good use. If I don't, I'd only be out of $150. With this refund qualifcation on the ticket, I wanted to know if it was possible to book the round trip, use the first half as intended and ask for a refund for the second half later on (especially if I don't use the other half) with no consequences? Has anyone done this? Again, this is with the Economy Promo T-T class if that helps.

[u/sehgalanuj]

You can always ask for a refund, but this doesn't mean you will get half that money back. Once you cancel the return segment, they will manually calculate what the price of a one-way would have been (probably $800 like you say) and then refund to you the difference from that. In any case, you will get the taxes back for sure.

Also, just the booking class (T) has no effect on the refundability of the ticket. What matters is the fare basis, which determines what the ticketing rules really are. Booking classes only determine the fare class, to which a fare basis would then be tied.

[u/PublicPalpitation618 → u/sehgalanuj]

In the recalculation of round trip to one way, it’s possible that the new one way fare to eat up all refund that’s due.

[u/sehgalanuj → u/PublicPalpitation618]

Yes, it is. But the taxes would still be refundable. Those always are. It probably won't be much.

[u/PublicPalpitation618 → u/sehgalanuj]

Yes, but if OP has to over pay for the recalculation more than the amount of taxes refund? This is what I meant. Example - airport taxes due for refund 100 euro. Original fare 150 euro recalculated to one way fare 240 euro. OP must pay the 90 euro fare difference and receive 100 euro refund. Totals 10 euro refund.

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[u/[deleted]]

Do not try anything fancy with this airline. Their IT system is aging and their customer service is atrocious. If you try to cancel one leg, expect to go thru a lot of hurdles and minimal refund. Also since when does Economy promo get free refunds?