Posted: Thu Apr 9, 2020 9:38am
Yes, you re legally entitled to refund, for now. And yes, Easyjet is being evasive.
At the moment the airline industry is lobbying the government hard for two things: Financial aid and to have the law changed to enable them to offer vouchers not refunds for cancelled flights.
Easyjet though have far bigger problems:
1. There is a serious boardroom split opening-up.
2. They are committed to buying new over-priced planes that they don't need (and they have possibly entered these contracts due to bribes from the planemaker to certain decision-makers in EJ).
3. The biggest share-holder (founder) it seems is attempting to drive down the share price potentially in an attempt to take the business private.
The fact is, Easyjet, like most airlines, can't afford to refund all the money for all the cancelled flights. This situation is partly our fault: We want cheap flight. We want airlines to run on a shoestring. If Easyjet said previously "If you pay an extra 20% for your flight, we'll be able to keep enough money in the bank to cover emergencies", everyone would say "feck that, I'm off to Ryanair".
We are only partly to blame. Easyjet has handled the Corona Virus situation dreadfully and in recent years the business has been run poorly. But at the end of the day the question is: Do we want Easyjet to disappear? If not, then sadly we might all have to accept vouchers, and even then there is a chance Easyjet will still go pop. One thing is for sure, if Easyjet go, prices will rocket.