Every option the agent weighed
Anytime Fare (soon renamed 'Choice Preferred' for flights from Jan 27, 2026) Southwest Airlines · selected
Cash refund to original form of payment and $0 cancellation fee both established from Southwest-sourced content; live fare not read.
- cash refund: Yes — cancellable any time up to 10 minutes before departure, with 100% of ticket value refunded to the original form of payment; comfortably satisfies the ≥14-day condition. southwest.com not the brand’s own page
- cancellation fee: $0 — Southwest charges no cancellation fee on any published fare, and 'Anytime' explicitly returns 100% of ticket value (no deduction). support.southwest.com not the brand’s own page
- price all in: null no source not the brand’s own page
Unresolved: price_all_in
Refundable / Flexible Economy fare United Airlines · unresolved
Cash-refund-to-original-payment established via a review source, but no source stated a concrete cancellation fee amount (only vague 'full refund' language); direct united.com fetch timed out twice.
- cash refund: Reported: refundable/'Flexible Economy' fares can be cancelled any time before departure for a refund to the original form of payment, which covers the ≥14-day condition. nerdwallet.com not the brand’s own page
- cancellation fee: null no source not the brand’s own page
- price all in: null no source not the brand’s own page
Unresolved: cancellation_fee; price_all_in
Refundable fare (Main Cabin, non-Basic-Economy) American Airlines · unresolved
aa.com pages returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch; available search summaries only described the 24-hour risk-free window and vague 'certain deductions,' not confirmed cash-refund/fee terms for a paid Refundable fare beyond 24 hours.
- cash refund: null no source not the brand’s own page
- cancellation fee: null no source not the brand’s own page
- price all in: null no source not the brand’s own page
Unresolved: cash_refund; cancellation_fee; price_all_in
Basic Economy / Main Cabin (standard, non-refundable) fare Delta Air Lines · rejected
Delta's own site confirms cancellation of Basic and standard Classic/Extra fares yields an eCredit, not cash to the original payment method — fails the customer's required refund condition regardless of fee.
- cash refund: No — cancelling a Basic or Classic/Extra fare produces an eCredit toward a future ticket, not a cash refund to the original form of payment. delta.com not the brand’s own page
- cancellation fee: Classic & Extra: no change/cancellation fee (but result is eCredit, not cash); Basic: a fee applies to change/cancel (exact amount not stated on this page). delta.com not the brand’s own page
- price all in: null no source not the brand’s own page
Unresolved: price_all_in
What this customer remembered
- Earlier this year the household cancelled a different subscription service and was given account credit instead of a cash refund, which it did not want.
Confidence
Tested: part of a frozen experiment with a baseline.
Provenance
Every journey run on the live web. Every source, belief and decision published. Scorer version 4; model cost 0.41 USD.