Before I'm judged, hear me out. Firstly, I'm a permanent Spanish resident so free to enter Spain, and came to the UK the week before the Spanish lockdown for important family reasons. Because of the virus I felt the right decision at the time was to stay put rather than travel back. At the moment it looks like my company in Spain will be able to start up again at the end of April, start of May (obviously this is very fluid and likely to change). As it stands, right now, I will still want to travel back to Spain around the 19th and when Easyjet inevitably cancel the flight I will have to make alternative, and more expensive arrangements, e.g. flying London to Madrid and the train. Naturally, Easyjet will be reluctant to reimburse this. Which is why I would be wanting to claim the compensation to ease the financial burden, at what is already a difficult time financially.

I appreciate some people might disagree with this however, if they cancelled the flights now, at least I could get the refund and be done with it and start to make alternative arrangements at a cheaper price. At the moment when contacting them, they say the flight is still planned to go ahead, when we all know this is pretty much impossible seeing as they've grounded their flights.