Easyjet refund advice - 40 weeks pregnant

ferf1223

tomB wrote: »

Honestly, I can't believe some of the responses on this forum! You all seem to be siding with the airline. If you give an airline 7 months notice to cancel a flight they should be able to cancel it and give you a refund. I can understand if there was an admin fee for the cancellation but to not offer any refund is theft, plain and simple. The airline would cancel your ticket, give you no refund and then sell on your ticket and make twice the money!
Finally, I can't believe you are saying that it is the fault of J Sh for getting pregnant! It suprises me how small minded some people can be.

Passengers accept the T&Cs at the time of booking...most of us book non-cancellable flights as they are signficantly less expensive than more flexible tickets where we would have the option to cancel and receive a refund. If we have to cancel on a non-cancellable ticket, we would claim on travel insurance...it's not down to the airline to refund us.

bb69

Congratulations on your pregnancy! Hope you sort something out

photome

tomB wrote: »

Honestly, I can't believe some of the responses on this forum! You all seem to be siding with the airline. If you give an airline 7 months notice to cancel a flight they should be able to cancel it and give you a refund. I can understand if there was an admin fee for the cancellation but to not offer any refund is theft, plain and simple. The airline would cancel your ticket, give you no refund and then sell on your ticket and make twice the money!
Finally, I can't believe you are saying that it is the fault of J Sh for getting pregnant! It suprises me how small minded some people can be.

Did you really sign up just to post that.

The OP bought a non refundable ticket, why should there be any "getting out of it"

I think easyjet do now offer a flexible ticket at a greater cost, the OP could have bought one of those.

I assume when the Op says she would get a refund from her airline that
A. it would be a flexible ticket
and
B. it would have been more expensive

I am not siding with anyone just saying it as it is.

I may not have chosen my words very well saying the Op choose to get pregnant, in which case I apologise but it still doesnt change anything

whatyadoinsucka

easyjet are so cheap because they sell non refundable tickets. if they gave refunds all day long because passenger a: got pregnant; passenger b: didn't fancy the rain/cold weather; and
passenger c: got too drunk the night before and slept through his alarm

i for one love easyjets low fares
amsterdam return for 2 weekend after valentines £91 all in
spain/germany £90 return 2 people in jan feb mar under £100
salszburg/munich retun £65 each

booked in the last few weeks.
i could have chosen flexible but it seemed to be £100 more each way

i got a halifax 'easycash' visa electron card
so no booking fees either
saved already on 40+ return flights for me and friends

DUTR

tomB wrote: »

Honestly, I can't believe some of the responses on this forum! You all seem to be siding with the airline. If you give an airline 7 months notice to cancel a flight they should be able to cancel it and give you a refund. I can understand if there was an admin fee for the cancellation but to not offer any refund is theft, plain and simple. The airline would cancel your ticket, give you no refund and then sell on your ticket and make twice the money!
Finally, I can't believe you are saying that it is the fault of J Sh for getting pregnant! It suprises me how small minded some people can be.

The idea of a public forum is for any reader that is authorised to post , can post their opinion, whether the reader agrees or wishes to act upon what they read is entirely up to them, at this point I must confess , I feel that you are the OP , posting under a different screen name

ferf1223

DUTR wrote: »

The idea of a public forum is for any reader that is authorised to post , can post their opinion, whether the reader agrees or wishes to act upon what they read is entirely up to them, at this point I must confess , I feel that you are the OP , posting under a different screen name

Aw, see - I got friend of the OP...not OP herself.

Though having read these forums for long enough, it does seem the 'why can't I cancel if I have a good reason and give enough notice?!' way of thinking is alarmingly more common that I would have expected...so maybe not...

Caz3121

J_Sh wrote: »

You would on the airline I work for, hence my surprise, although all airlines would impose a fee for administration costs, which is to be expected.

If your airline gives refunds in a case like this they will be the minority most whether low cost or full service airlines will direct you to insurance. I worked in the industry for 10 years (full service airline) and have not come across this refund for pregnancy.

J_Sh

bb69 wrote: »

Congratulations on your pregnancy! Hope you sort something out

Thank you BB69, that is kind of you to say.

J_Sh

DUTR wrote: »

The idea of a public forum is for any reader that is authorised to post , can post their opinion, whether the reader agrees or wishes to act upon what they read is entirely up to them, at this point I must confess , I feel that you are the OP , posting under a different screen name [/

I'm sorry but I only came onto this forum for a bit of legal advice, I honestly wish I hadn't bothered now. Although I am grateful to TomB for daring to share their opinion, I can also honestly say I never even thought of 'posting under a different name' How would you go about doing this? I assume this is something you have done before?

Caz3121 whilst I appreciated your advice regarding insurance (which as I mentioned I do actually have), it is obvious that the airline I have worked ten years for is not the same as yours therefore I will leave your comments at that.

Just to make it clear...
If I had overslept no I would not expect a refund
If I didn't fancy the rain no I would not expect a refund
If I had gotten drunk the night before no I would not expect a refund
If I had decided to cancel 2 days before the flight no I would not expect a refund
If I was 28 to 36 weeks pregnant with a single pregnancy but didn't fancy flying at that stage no I would not expect a refund

The difference is that I am not ALLOWED to fly. This is not a CAA regulation it is an airline regulation which is common across most if not all UK carriers (although interestingly enough not in the US.) It is also a policy I happen very much to agree with. However as I mentioned before I am interested as to whether this is considered discriminatory under law especially with recent changes to legislation.

I also believe that 7 months notice is enough time to issue a refund. Again I was interested as to the legal aspect, i.e consumer rights. If you bought an item which subsequently was unfit for purpose you would be entitled to a refund. Would a service be covered under the same legislation?

To those who say 'you should have read the T's & C's I agree. I'm sure you all read the T's & C's before you buy anything However, as mentioned, I did not book the ticket.

Yes, I do happen to believe that giving enough notice and a good reason should justify consideration of a refund but I understand that not everybody feels this is something they are entitled to. We will never agree on everything but for the moment I would appreciate if any accusatory tones are left at the doorstep and factual advice to the above questions be offered (if available).

Thanks in advance.





interested to know if there is why I appreciated the advice regainsurance

photome

J_Sh wrote: »

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The difference is that I am not ALLOWED to fly. This is not a CAA regulation it is an airline regulation which is common across most if not all UK carriers (although interestingly enough not in the US.) It is also a policy I happen very much to agree with. However as I mentioned before I am interested as to whether this is considered discriminatory under law especially with recent changes to legislation.

I also believe that 7 months notice is enough time to issue a refund. Again I was interested as to the legal aspect, i.e consumer rights. If you bought an item which subsequently was unfit for purpose you would be entitled to a refund. Would a service be covered under the same legislation?

Regarding 40 weeks pregnant havent most women given birth by the 40th week?

As for the flight being unfit for purpose.it isnt, you will be.

7 months may be enough time to issue a refund but the ticket is non refundable which has been mentioned many times and is a standard ticket across the airline undustry.

What type of ticket does your airline sell and what would be the difference in cost?