Cancelling a flight-Refunds
I've got a flight booked on Easyjet tomorrow but I don't need it anymore. Now in their T's & C's they say that they operate a no refund policy.
Earlier in the year I had a similar situation with BA where I was allowed to cancel the flight. I lost the ticket price but the portion of it that was for tax's I was refunded minus a fee.
Now I always believed that the airline were collecting the tax's on the airports/governments behalf and that if I didn't fly then this wasn't needed and I could claim it back.
I do notice that on a BA ticket there is a breakdown of the tax's and fuel charges etc but Easyjet are missing this. Is it all in the wording, are Easyjet charging me for the ticket and covering the tax's themselves thereby allowing themselves to keep everything in the case of a cancellation/no show?
Easyjet are good enough to allow me to change my tickets for a fee. But this fee is £35 per sector so £70 for a return flight meaning that it is more expensive than just buying a fresh ticket. How is £70 per rtn flight justified I have to do all the work and a standard booking charge is £9. So why is it so inflated for a change?