Refundable Flights on HDFC Smartbuy?

[Wealth is my birth right!]

Wut. That's only on regalia gold I think. Voucher for uber.

300 max or they increased?

 

[NikTravelEnthusiast]

worked for me multiple times . pretty seamless .

Didn’t they asked for reason of cancelation? There must me some hidden terms?
@adldeeps experience tells another stroy. I am confused now.

 

[NikTravelEnthusiast]

usage of smartbuy ticket booking we get airport drop for some cards

Which cards? Can you eloborate.

 

[Batman]

usage of smartbuy ticket booking we get airport drop for some cards

Whaaat. Do share more. Which cards, how do you book it?

 

[adldeeps]

If booking fails, immediately mail infinia support on hdfcbank as well as smartbuy. Usually they follow up. Had OTP problem and they as it showed "failed" on order history. Even once in hotel booking I had name change. They followed up for same. Flight cancelled by indigo, they confirmed I'll get full refund. Dunno about taxes part.

Also, I always say, use hotel booking to EARN points. Flights or tanishq to REDEEM them.

Which cards? Can you eloborate.

If you book flight on smartbuy you get a 300/- uber cupon which can be added to uber wallet. I have Regalia Gold where it works, not sure for other cards. And getting this cupon is not straight forward because you have to obtain that in certain window before the flight but once you learn the process its fun to do.

 

[adldeeps]

Didn’t they asked for reason of cancelation? There must me some hidden terms?
@adldeeps experience tells another stroy. I am confused now.

I just shared my opinion on travel experience being sold as free cancellation. I tried to read all their terms and if you want to cancel and get full refund then there are only specific scenarios in which you have can get refund. For example I booked a ticket to attend my friends wedding but later something more important came up and IF I want to cancel then this insurance will not cover that for zero cancellation.

and after few setbacks where smartbuy dont refund anything now whenever i forsee my plan as dicey I use regular agent and get cancellable tickets by paying 1-2K extra as cancellable fare

 

[Wealth is my birth right!]

Whaaat. Do share more. Which cards, how do you book it?

Regalia gold card currently has the feature
Use till stock lasts

 

[NikTravelEnthusiast]

I just shared my opinion on travel experience being sold as free cancellation. I tried to read all their terms and if you want to cancel and get full refund then there are only specific scenarios in which you have can get refund. For example I booked a ticket to attend my friends wedding but later something more important came up and IF I want to cancel then this insurance will not cover that for zero cancellation.

and after few setbacks where smartbuy dont refund anything now whenever i forsee my plan as dicey I use regular agent and get cancellable tickets by paying 1-2K extra as cancellable fare

Yes. I do agree with you. Kind of shady terms.

Can agents give us a refundable tickets? How much time frame is allowed?

 

[adldeeps]

Yes. I do agree with you. Kind of shady terms.

Can agents give us a refundable tickets? How much time frame is allowed?

Yes Agents have options to choose from lowest fare to corporate fare or refundable etc multiple categories. Ideally the timeframe i would like to opt is upto 2-4 hrs before flight. Recently I observed that they have 2 cancellable options upto 24-48 hrs before (extra 500-1000/-)or upto 2 hours before(extra 1000-2000/-) Although we have cancellable options form aggregators like MMT/GoIBIBO/EMT but then its a big hassle to cancel and follupw up for refunds and hidden deductions.

 

[Zacobite]

Has anybody been successful in booking refundable flights via HDFC Smartbuy?

1. There's no option to choose a refundable flight.
2. The flight chosen gives no information on cancellation (check screenshot).

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There's another thread with this discussion, but it has no answers.

no option yet.. travel insurance comes up sometime

 

[theglobalinvestor]

Yeah, I just noticed the same. I'm looking to book air arabia for short connections and all fare options are only available directly on airline website but they bill in AED not ₹. Any way to avoid forex and book other fare class on any local OTA/aggregator website?

 

[Ravana_88]

Didn’t they asked for reason of cancelation? There must me some hidden terms?
@adldeeps experience tells another stroy. I am confused now.

This is for the zero cancellation policy which you purchase over and above the ticket . MMT has all these things sorted . 3 yrs back I had to cancel a flight because I had covid . Uploaded the proof and got refund in 48 hours ( Different anecdote but tells you about their processes )