easyJet

[Jerry]

Jerry I’ve been looking at that very good price. Half the price I paid to go there for Easter. Sadly cancelled

It is extremely good value!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Easyjet have a sale on for the winter. £28.99 one way which includes Athens. Nuts that you can fly for so cheap on a route like that.

I suspect it's to get in some cash flow.

I'm still trying to get a refund of our BRS-NCL-BRS flights that were cancelled by easyJet. Their cancellation emails concentrate on trying to persuade people to transfer their booking to another date or flights, paying any difference in fare. Finding the pathway for a refund takes some searching out and now is next to impossible to achieve.

I tried their chat line last week but that cut out and is now discontinued. The customer service phone helpline seems permanently engaged. Judging from comments made on the Dried Fruit recently I'm not the only one in this predicament.

It's not a huge amount (£120) although we have other easyJet flights scheduled for the end of May/early June which I'm not expecting to operate.

I accept that easyJet as with other airlines probably has a lot of cash held back by credit card companies and I have sympathy with these airlines' predicament. I wonder though whether airline shareholders (the owners of the company) are doing their bit. Recent reports that one easyJet shareholder is getting £60 million in dividend money whilst we passengers can't get our own money back from the company does stick in the craw.

ABTA's website suggests that many of its members are not currently issuing refunds for cancelled holidays but issuing refund credit notes instead for those who don't want to transfer their bookings to a future holiday. We find ourselves in that situation with a holiday booked for late spring. The holidays are ABTA-protected so eventually we should get our money back if the travel company goes to the wall.

easyJet flight-only bookings are not ATOL-protected so if easyJet fails it looks as though the credit card companies will be the ones to whom passengers will have to look for a refund.

So going back to the beginning of this post, I can only surmise that these cheap fares are a way of trying to generate cash flow, but if the credit card companies hold back some of this new money...................

 

[Jerry]

So going back to the beginning of this post, I can only surmise that these cheap fares are a way of trying to get cash flow, but if the credit card companies hold back some of this new money...................

Yep I'd book with a credit card as a just in case if I book a flight with them so it's probable that they'd not get the money.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I suspect it's to get in some cash flow.

I'm still trying to get a refund of our BRS-NCL-BRS flights that were cancelled by easyJet. Their cancellation emails concentrate on trying to persuade people to transfer their booking to another date or flights, paying any difference in fare. Finding the pathway for a refund takes some searching out and now is next to impossible to achieve.

I tried their chat line last week but that cut out and is now discontinued. The customer service phone helpline seems permanently engaged. Judging from comments made on the Dried Fruit recently I'm not the only one in this predicament.

It's not a huge amount (£120) although we have other easyJet flights scheduled for the end of May/early June which I'm not expecting to operate.

I accept that easyJet as with other airlines probably has a lot of cash held back by credit card companies and I have sympathy with these airlines' predicament. I wonder though whether airline shareholders (the owners of the company) are doing their bit. Recent reports that one easyJet shareholder is getting £60 million in dividend money whilst we passengers can't get our own money back from the company does stick in the craw.

ABTA's website suggests that many of its members are not currently issuing refunds for cancelled holidays but issuing refund credit notes instead for those who don't want to transfer their bookings to a future holiday. We find ourselves in that situation with a holiday booked for late spring. The holidays are ABTA-protected so eventually we should get our money back if the travel company goes to the wall.

easyJet flight-only bookings are not ATOL-protected so if easyJet fails it looks as though the credit card companies will be the ones to whom passengers will have to look for a refund.

So going back to the beginning of this post, I can only surmise that these cheap fares are a way of trying to generate cash flow, but if the credit card companies hold back some of this new money...................

People 'disgusted at refund loop' on cancelled easyJet flights

easyJet's system has been branded 'bizarre' by customers who were due to fly from Bristol Airport

www.bristolpost.co.uk

More people in my situation. With me it's not the money - I can afford to lose the relatively small amount involved - but the principle.

easyJet are treating loyal customers with utter contempt. They set up a system that is supposed to cater for those who want a refund on their cancelled flight(s) or alternatively are content to transfer their booking to a future flight(s).

It apparently works if you transfer your booking to a future flight. However, if you want a refund you are sent on a circular tour of their website before finishing at the starting point with nothing whatsoever achieved other than a rise in blood pressure and a feeling of intense frustration.

It's a rather cruel version of the song There's a Hole in my Bucket because many people will have paid out a lot more in fares than we have (albeit we have more potential cancelled easyJet flights booked later this spring) and some can probably ill-afford not to be refunded.

 

[Marko1]

I too have been waiting for monies back from easyJet. The most frustrating thing is they simply do not answer you via email or twitter. The money is a fair amount ( 4 of us ) but I would like to know when it should be back with the rightful owner of the said money.

 

[Marko1]

Berlin brandenburg now on sale for this winter along with hurghada and Grenoble.

 

[Jerry]

 

[Marko1]

EasyJet holidays are now on sale for summer 2021.

 

[superking]

With 2021 holidays on sale now. Does this mean they have given 2020 a forgotten season.

 

[Jerry]

With 2021 holidays on sale now. Does this mean they have given 2020 a forgotten season.

Well i'd imagine as it's the holiday site they would want to have holidays for Summer 2021 onsale in advance like Jet2 and TUI have.

 

[Jerry]

Stelios scaremongering?

EasyJet founder warns airline will run out of money by August if Airbus order goes ahead

‘How many Brits will want to fly to northern Italy or Spain on holiday this June and vice-versa? Not many I think,’ says the easyJet founder

www.independent.co.uk

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Stelios scaremongering?

EasyJet founder warns airline will run out of money by August if Airbus order goes ahead

‘How many Brits will want to fly to northern Italy or Spain on holiday this June and vice-versa? Not many I think,’ says the easyJet founder

www.independent.co.uk

I'll reprise my post in the easyJet airline thread as an introduction - the next four paragraphs - then comment briefly on BRS and easyJet.

Stelio's view of how aviation will react following the recovery from COVID-19 is no more valid than anyone else's. No-one knows.

He's using the COVID opportunity to return to his anti-easyJet expansion argument. As with any protagonist in any dispute he will highlight and focus on matters that he believes support his case.

He might turn out to be right - he might not. The more he keeps on there will inevitably be people who will think he 'doth protest too much'.

It seems the easyJet board has rejected his initial demand for a general meeting.

As far as BRS is concerned, I make no forecast, projection, guestimate (call it what you will) for the reasons I ascribed to Stelios in the second paragraph above.

I'm not sure that anyone in the airline industry is saying or thinking that from, say, 1 July or 1 August or 1 September or whatever other date, the industry will suddenly be up and running in the same way it was prior to COVID-19. Common sense must suggest the return will be more of a gradual movement although to what degree I have no idea.

We all know that BRS is heavily reliant on easyJet so any downsizing or even a different focus to its operations might impact negatively on the airport, or a different focus might even improve its prospects if, for example, easyJet retrenched to a handful of core airports around the country and BRS was deemed one of them.

What seems beyond argument is that BRS's fortunes are closely interlinked with easyJet, perhaps to a greater degree than any other UK airport in terms of the percentage of movements and passenger numbers.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

easyJet Worldwide flights

A discussion has taken place on the CWL Loganair thread re the above. easyJet has a number of partner airlines that include Loganair and Aurigny.

So far as BRS is concerned it's possible to book BRS-GCI on the easyJet booking engine website by actuating the Worldwide flights button, albeit the carrier is Aurigny.

Similarly, BRS-ABZ appears as a route on the easyJet booking engine website (although as with Aurigny to GCI the routes don't appear in the easyJet route drop-down destination list - you have to type in GCI or ABZ in the From or To parts of the booking engine). However, with ABZ a note that the route is operated by a partner airline (Loganair) appears but when the calendar appears no dates are currently available for booking.

The same applies with CWL to EDI with Loganair, although CWL to GLA with Loganair is bookable from June on the easyJet website.

 

[kraktoa]

Presuming that the lock down is raised and none of the onboard social distancing middle seat empty considerations are in place. How quickly do you think Easyjet could go from zero to hundred percent.

In my opinion the only limiting factor will be

Availability of aircraft fuel or rather its quick distribution to the various locations in UK

Availability of consumables for in flight

Availability of ground handling

Given that there is no shortage of fuel or food at the current time it should easily be scalable within a week. The ground handling personnel and airline crew will be ready fo4 deployment within the hour. I daresay we can go to full operations in 1 week within europe?

 

[Jerry]

What will be interesting to see is if once flights resume airlines like Easyjet will be allowed to or may themselves not serve food and drink onboard at least for a few month's anyway.

 

[kraktoa]

There is talk of revenge travel. Revenge against the virus. People will be itching to go on holidays.

I think the smart money is on getting the deals now for late 2020 and early 2021. There are some great deals to be had. With a deposit of only £60 it is well worth a risk on the easy holiday website

 

[TheLocalYokel]

There is talk of revenge travel. Revenge against the virus. People will be itching to go on holidays.

I think the smart money is on getting the deals now for late 2020 and early 2021. There are some great deals to be had. With a deposit of only £60 it is well worth a risk on the easy holiday website

The international sector will depend entirely on how quickly countries lift restrictions on travel from abroad. Without a vaccine that is widely available, and that might not be until next year, there will be people who are not willing to risk travelling in an aircraft.

I hope that you are right in your projection. A few weeks ago I read something that suggested the aviation industry is expecting (hoping?) that 2021 will see 75%-80% of 2019's performance. At the moment it's impossible to know what will happen.

A vaccine might arrive sooner than expected or the virus might even largely blow itself out.

 

[superking]

This morning Easyjet A320 due out to Gatwick turned round and landed back in BRS. Th Reg no was G-EZWD. Think it may have had a problem.

 

[Marko1]

Easter 2021 flights now on sale

 

[superking]

Easter 2021 flights now on sale

Can you tell if the A 321 airbus aircraft based again.