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Airlines are already overbooking flights. The whole thing came up because airlines don't pay back customers in a timely manner. It can takes months to get your
by foepys 4y ago
Airlines are already overbooking flights.
The whole thing came up because airlines don't pay back customers in a timely manner. It can takes months to get your money back from airlines even when the airline is fully at fault.
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- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoIcelandAir gave me a credit instead of refund when they canceled my flight in early COVID days. I called asking for a refund and was refused. The credit expired before I could use it. Why is there an expiration? This was in excess of $2000. I’ll never fly IcelandAir again.
- rich_sasha 4y agoIn (un)fairness it sounds like what all airlines do.
- plugin-baby 4y agoBritish Airways gave straight refunds automatically at the start of the pandemic.
- ascar 4y agoMy Ryanair Tickets were also converted to credits, but I was able to ask for money when they expired.
- consp 4y agoSince Iceland is in the EU, you should check a bit more if that's allowed. I'm pretty sure it isn't and when the credit expires you should still be able to collect the original amount, at least that is what happened in some other instances to avoid liquidity crisis with airlines and holiday agencies.
- zaarn 4y agoIceland is not in the EU. They are in the process of joining since like a decade but have never completed their application. They are in the EFTA and the EEA however.
- osivertsson 4y agoAccording to an Icelandic friend not fully joining the EU is on purpose. There are people on Iceland that enjoys the benefits of EFTA and EEA, yet does not want to fully tackle corruption. Iceland is the most corrupt Nordic country by far (yet on a global scale still pretty good).
- zaarn 4y agoWell yes and no, the topmost reason is that rural folk simply are very eurosceptic there (see polls on that matter) and the election system favors them a bit, so overall, the eurosceptic parties remain in power (for now). Though I've yet to see an analysis on the matter since Russia's imperialistic invasion of Ukraine.
- magicalhippo 4y agoIceland, like Norway where I'm from, is part of the European Economic Area[1] through the European Free Trade Association[2], but not a full EU-member. They get access to the EU single market, by agreeing to implement EU legislation in a number of areas. It can be quite confusing at times. For example, both Iceland and Norway are part of the Schengen agreement[3], so in that respect we're "from EU" when traveling. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Associatio... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
- nibbleshifter 4y agoIts always confusing to people that "not all in Schengen are in the EU, and not all the EU are in Schengen". Its incredibly useful for visa reasons though.
- jules 4y agoHow is this not straight up fraud?