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Has anyone with Residente Permanente gotten a refund of these fees?  I have done what their site says to do, send email with attached copies of our residency cards. But no response and it's been well over a month.

United and American airlines have always refunded these fees promptly.  We ended up on AeroMexico at last minute when Houston was shutdown due to weather conditions.  

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This may not help yu this time, but perhaps in the future. I rarely find good customer service at AeroMexico. I recently cancelled a flight and they gave me an eCredit only good  until the end of the year. Anyway, I try to schedule most of my AeroMexico flights via Delta (their partner) and Delta is good at refunding the tourist tax.

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We had United reservations; after we arrived at GDL we were told that IAH would close before we could make our connection there. 

We ran to Delta counter since they had a flight out within a few hours (and not to TX where weather was bad at DFW, too), but they directed us to the AeroMexico kiosk for bookings.  

I book all our flights online or via mobile app normally.  

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3 hours ago, Floradude said:

One of the advantages of booking your ticket the old fashioned way...  With a travel agent.  I always remind her not to charge me for the tourist tax. 

Usually flights are quite a bit more expensive when booked through a travel agent, as compared to doing it yourself online

 

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10 hours ago, NoVaDamer said:

This may not help yu this time, but perhaps in the future. I rarely find good customer service at AeroMexico. I recently cancelled a flight and they gave me an eCredit only good  until the end of the year. Anyway, I try to schedule most of my AeroMexico flights via Delta (their partner) and Delta is good at refunding the tourist tax.

I have had my e credit extended twice already. Maybe you can ask. How do you go about having the tourist tax refunded?

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8 hours ago, gogirl said:

I have had my e credit extended twice already. Maybe you can ask. How do you go about having the tourist tax refunded?

Thanks; I'll try that!

For the refund, there are two options. One is to go ahead and fly, then afterward go on the airline website, search for customer service, and submit a request for refund of the tourist tax. It takes some time and aggravation, but generally works.

I fly Delta all the time, so I went one step further. I contacted Delta and had then change my place of residence (in their database) to Mexico, so I automatically don't pay the tourist tax when I book with them. This was a drill which required sending them a photo of my permanente, but was worth it. Good luck!

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United is quickest to refund, usually 3 days to process via their online refund page.  American was slower as their refund page isn't prepared to handle it and I had to send a refund request via email; took about 10 days.

In each case you upload or attach a photo of your residence card.  The refund is in the form of a credit to the credit card you used when booking.  

 

 

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