Originally Posted by
Confus
They can if all European countries do the same and the EU Commission allows it accordingly...... (no one said this was a British move, all European airlines are lobbying collectively. The French government has already signalled it is sympathetic; the Spanish look likely to follow suit this week. So just in case, get all refund requests in pronto.)
In a way this is working against them at least for those paying attention. I just cancelled four Avios bookings (J ex-US so large surcharges) for this summer that I would have been happy to leave in place to see how things play out but at this point I went ahead and cancelled. I'll be doing the same with VS in the next day as well (though Delta metal so not an insane amount of cash exposed on that one).