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> Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit. You don't have to imagine. This happens quit

> Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit. You don't have to imagine. This happens quite regularly with Wizzair nowadays.

xeromal 4y ago
Never heard of Wizzair, but my experience in the US is that they book you on a new flight. If none of their options suffice, (I believe) they'll help you book on an alternative airline like when a computer outage happens and takes down their entire network. This seems to be the case even for our budget airlines like spirit.
- 4ad 4y ago
  This is what happens everywhere with any real airline. Wizzair and other low cost airlines are of couse bound by the same consumer protection laws, but they prey on their uneducated clientele who doesn't know their own rights so they don't know they can complain. Of course even if you know, and you complain, they will make your life miserable. With Things like these, plus all the dark patterns and scams regarding luggage, check-in, etc, I don't know why anyone would ever fly low cost.
- biztos 4y ago
  WizzAir[0] is the cheap Hungarian carrier and offers tons of flights out of Budapest all over Europe. Since the flag carrier, Malév[1], went bust -- in no small part due to the machinations of Wizz -- it's also the only airline with a direct route to many important destinations, such as Berlin. So for the purposes of "cheap carrier screws you over" you could substitute EasyJet or RyanAir or whatever and have the same story, but with Wizzair you also have a lot of people flying it for business purposes because it's the only way to get to Berlin in under three hours. And I've heard from a lot of friends who had their Wizz tickets unceremoniously cancelled this summer, so not surprise to see someone mention it here. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizz_Air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizz_Air [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malév_Hungarian_Airlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malév_Hungarian_Airlines

> Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit. You don't have to imagine. This happens quite regularly with Wizzair nowadays.

xeromal 4y ago

Never heard of Wizzair, but my experience in the US is that they book you on a new flight. If none of their options suffice, (I believe) they'll help you book on an alternative airline like when a computer outage happens and takes down their entire network. This seems to be the case even for our budget airlines like spirit.

4ad 4y ago
This is what happens everywhere with any real airline. Wizzair and other low cost airlines are of couse bound by the same consumer protection laws, but they prey on their uneducated clientele who doesn't know their own rights so they don't know they can complain. Of course even if you know, and you complain, they will make your life miserable. With Things like these, plus all the dark patterns and scams regarding luggage, check-in, etc, I don't know why anyone would ever fly low cost.
biztos 4y ago
WizzAir[0] is the cheap Hungarian carrier and offers tons of flights out of Budapest all over Europe. Since the flag carrier, Malév[1], went bust -- in no small part due to the machinations of Wizz -- it's also the only airline with a direct route to many important destinations, such as Berlin. So for the purposes of "cheap carrier screws you over" you could substitute EasyJet or RyanAir or whatever and have the same story, but with Wizzair you also have a lot of people flying it for business purposes because it's the only way to get to Berlin in under three hours. And I've heard from a lot of friends who had their Wizz tickets unceremoniously cancelled this summer, so not surprise to see someone mention it here. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizz_Air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizz_Air [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malév_Hungarian_Airlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malév_Hungarian_Airlines