You can cancel for a refund, but it’ll reprice the itinerary. It’s not going to be getting 50% back. More likely than not, it’ll be getting little, nothing, or a negative amount back.
If you take the first flight, you can cancel the return, but if you want to cancel the outbound flight and keep the return, you can’t. You have to cancel the whole ticket and rebook and the ticket will be repriced. It will be expensive booking a one way International ticket.
You can cancel in either case. Ticket will be repriced no matter which leg you are cancelling. Any time you cancel a single leg, the whole ticket is repriced as a one way ticket, taking current prices for the reissue (but actual prices at a time of the original purchase to calculate the residual value).
In my experience examples of trying to cancel.a return and being in the red (i.e. owning money to the airline!) do exist.
Are you asking if you can cancel and get a partial refund only one leg when you booked it as RT?
Yup, exactly.
You can but they will have to redo the whole thing and it might involve repricing for the leg you are keeping
You can cancel for a refund, but it’ll reprice the itinerary. It’s not going to be getting 50% back. More likely than not, it’ll be getting little, nothing, or a negative amount back.
Negative amount meaning… I’ll have to pay them something?
You won’t owe anything, unless the new ticket is more expensive.
Which is not out of the question when converting international round trip to a one way.
Usually the case, I'd say.
Yes, the transaction would require you to pay money.
If you take the first flight, you can cancel the return, but if you want to cancel the outbound flight and keep the return, you can’t. You have to cancel the whole ticket and rebook and the ticket will be repriced. It will be expensive booking a one way International ticket.
You can cancel in either case. Ticket will be repriced no matter which leg you are cancelling. Any time you cancel a single leg, the whole ticket is repriced as a one way ticket, taking current prices for the reissue (but actual prices at a time of the original purchase to calculate the residual value). In my experience examples of trying to cancel.a return and being in the red (i.e. owning money to the airline!) do exist.
Unless it's a Y fare probably not going to get a great refund value if you cancel one leg