Is there anyway to speed up/bypass the 21 business day Velocity flight cancellation process?

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Hi all - tried cancelling my Singapore Airlines business return flight SIN-LHR paid for using Velocity points. Had to email the request through, the call centre wouldn’t perform the cancellation. Below is the email I got back in response.

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Thank you for contacting us regarding your refund request for your Velocity booking. I have now forwarded your request to our redemptions team who will action this for you.

As we are currently experiencing a higher number of enquiries than usual, please allow 21 business days for the flights to be cancelled and your Points/credit card payment to be refunded back to your account.

Requests are being actioned in travel date order. We appreciate your patience while we action your request.

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Is there any recourse to challenge the 21 business days?

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As far as I know, there isn’t. I’m not sure of the motives to cancel the ticket and when you were set to travel but the sensible thing to do would be to wait until a week or so before travel to consider cancellation options. Plus, the risk of cancelling now is that call centres are shut, limiting your avenues of getting a responsive reply from the airline.

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A quick follow up - got an email response today to say that the flight has been cancelled and the points back into my Velocity account. So in reality that was around 3-4 days turnaround.

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