Originally Posted by tominspain

I have a flight on the 19th April - Bristol to Bilbao which is not yet cancelled but the route is sold out for the whole month, so they are clearly planning on cancelling it. If they cancel within 14 days of the flight what are peoples opinions on EU261 compensation? Given the circumstances I wouldn´t have normally considered this, however I have had so many bad experiences with Easyjet and their failure to manage disruption, and also I will still need to make the essential journey to Spain around the 19th regardless as to whether the flight is cancelled or not so it would help with the extra cost of a last minute flight to Bilbao.

My argument for EU261 would be that this is now not due to extraordinary circumstances that they have cancelled the flight - Covid-19 has been known about for a while now, so they could have cancelled outside the 14 day limit, and other airlines are still operating to Spain, albeit a skeleton service. Secondly Easyjet have announced they are grounding the their entire fleet, and most flights for April are already 'sold out' online so they already know that these flights will be most likely to be cancelled just that they have'nt communicated anything official to the passengers.