{"id":2121,"date":"2015-08-14T01:12:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T01:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2015-08-14T01:12:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T01:12:41","slug":"in-the-olden-days-i-could-get-a-refund-of-a-non-refundable-ticket-for-a-medical-reason-with-a-doctors-note-is-that-still-the-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/in-the-olden-days-i-could-get-a-refund-of-a-non-refundable-ticket-for-a-medical-reason-with-a-doctors-note-is-that-still-the-case\/","title":{"rendered":"In the olden days I could get a refund of a non-refundable ticket for a medical reason with a doctor&#8217;s note. Is that still the case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the olden days, when non-refundable also meant non-changeable, that was indeed true. However, that practice was virtually eliminated when airlines began allowing the value of non-refundable tickets to be retained for future use, minus a change fee. Some airlines may reduce or waive the change fee  with appropriate documentation. Acceptable documentation varies by airline, but typically includes emergency room or hospital documents rather than just a doctor&#8217;s note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the olden days, when non-refundable also meant non-changeable, that was indeed true. However, that practice was virtually eliminated when airlines began allowing the value of non-refundable tickets to be retained for future use, minus a change fee. Some airlines may reduce or waive the change fee with appropriate documentation. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}