Just as an update to my previous posting:
I received an email today (7/1/10) indicating that the refunds - of both the cancelled lights and the unusable returns - are now under way.
The downside is that today we were supposed to be going MPL-LGW with Easyjet (having found an alternative route out) ... flight cancelled around 11:30 local time for a 15:35 take-off flight.
Our onward flight from LGW-MAN with BA has also since been cancelled. No seats out of MPL are available before Monday
. Hence we have now booked ourselves on CCF-LPL on Sunday with FR.
Easyjet has changed its customer services system in the intervening days with the effect that requesting a refund of the original tickets is now a three-click process instead of the tedious and flawed process that we had to use last week.
Easyjet has cancelled around 140 flights thus far today ... FR is admitting to 38 cancellations.
PBW