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Old 30th Mar 2020, 14:00
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atakacs
 
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Originally Posted by 11277m
These Covid 19 cancellation issues are almost exclusively about reimbursement of the ticket cost following the cancellation of the flight. Do airlines expect to cancel the flight and keep the money? Maybe in their minds that seems a reasonable thing to do, but the law thinks and says otherwise.
Check article 8 - for what I can read out of it is pretty clear: if you elect for reimbursement of a cancelled flight it should be done within 7 days, no but, no if, no "force majeure" clause.
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