Originally Posted by
lowfareair
I did but missed that part. Thanks! Does clear things up a bit, as long as Ryanair is very up front with it, and not waiting until after someone has attempted to check in for a flight to tell them.
Because if there is one thing we learned in the last 19-20 months, it's that when an airline says you are not entitled to a refund, they are 100% in the right and weren't just saying it because they were scared of hemorrhaging cash. Yes, United, Air Canada, Lufthansa, etc. would absolutely give an immediate refund when someone qualified and wouldn't spend months to a year+ giving them the runaround.
It could just as easily been that people thought they were due refunds because a gov't was banning that category of travel and didn't know that wasn't enough.
This is the point, they weren't banned from travelling, they decided not to fly due to an FCO advisory notice that's all. The flight went ahead as scheduled and they could have got onto the flight. That's why Ryanair refused a refund but they did offer a change of flight free of charge which was not taken up by the passengers again negating the use of a chargeback .