Originally Posted by
SK2751
I completely disagree with these as being justification for hate. Anybody buying a ticket now, and being 'surprised' that the connection is cancelled/reschedule, is either mischievous or stupid. Pushing airlines to liquidate all fare funds (that point 2 seems to suggest) would simply put them into bankruptcy. Most customers wouldn't see a penny. Fortunately, airlines are smarter than just bailing out. Point 3 is basically the airlines attempt to avoid the bankruptcy. I can understand people being unhappy (I'm personally more unhappy for having to sit at home the last 2 months, than from missing a fare refund ...), but I do not understand hate. The situation is objectively difficult. We need to seek ways to cope/surive, not seek victims and scapegoats. Like Often1 says, file a refund request and a chargeback, open a beer, and relax.
I totally understand what you are saying, and of course I wouldn't book a flight in June, now, without knowing that the risk of it not going ahead was quite high. However, there are indeed many people still trying to get home. Only a few days ago, I checked and I could buy EDI to ARN as of 11 May. I know of Swedes in Scotland trying to get back to Sweden. The flight was for sale, it is so soon that I think many would think it is safe to assume that whatever is on sale for the month of May is the 'limited schedule' of flights being offered and that it will indeed go ahead. Can you blame them for then booking and assuming it'll go ahead? June is one thing, but just how late SAS is leaving it before cancelling -- that I dislike.
I checked just now out of curiosity and now all of May has no flights between EDI and ARN, which wasn't the case a few days ago. But as soon as you load up June, there are flights on 01 June onwards. It seems to be the full normal schedules for EDI-ARN. It's still the 10th so I can maybe forgive the flights still being around, but if I can book that 01 June flight on say, the 20th of May, I would think that is pretty bad of SAS.