But your thinking about this all wrong.

You did not buy seat 23A (or what ever your seat number was) on the plane between X and Y. You bought a right to a passage b/w X and Y.

You cancelled your ticket and as others are saying, according to the T/C of your purchse you aren't due a refund.

So whether easyjet sold or did not sell seat 23A is moot because you didn't buy a place on a particular plane.

You paid for non-refundable is my guess so there's no refund. Do they even sell refundable tickets? An airline hopes for 100 such cancellations so they can resell 100 seats on every flight. You can buy fully refundable tickets for 3,4,5,10 times the EasyJet fare and refund them even if you just don't feel like showing up.

It is not like you took a pair of pants back to the shop and they will resell them and they refund your cash. It's an airline.

I'm amazed they told you they resold them, like it is relevant and anyone's business other than EasyJet and whoever bought the tickets. Maybe to taunt you as they denied something you are not owed?

Well not super but to them, more money which is how they work unless they've been taken over by a church or the Red Cross.

Just now I'm checking price for a one way ticket PRG-MXP for next year:

Easyjet total cost 23.2 EUR tax included, if I add 23 kg baggage and even seat selection it will be 50 all in. For the two extras, I can decide to buy them even one day before the trip at same cost if I'm not sure about my plan.
With OK the minimum price for a flexy ticket is 100 Euro with a refund fee of 60 EUR, for fully refundable I should buy a full flex business ticket for 250 Euro

I will happily accept the "unfair" Easyjet T&C and put at risk my 23 Euro in case.

As someone already mention no LC carrier would offer such prices if they risk to refund passengers that decide to cancel their trip for whatever reason, even more after customer already accepted their conditions.

You are not entitled to a refund if you cancel your ticket more than 24 hours after purchase.

The airline is in the business of making money, not in providing insurance to all customers booking cheap seats (which is effectively what you wish from them by expecting a full refund when your plans change).


By offering non-refundable tickets, which you were under no obligation to buy. The airline has "offloaded" the uncertainty onto you, the purchaser. You bought the ticket, apparently without being fully commited to travel, and fully informed of the terms of the ticket (no refunds past 24 hours of booking).

In future, you may wish to postpone buying a ticket until you are certain of your plans. If this means you can't benefit from the cheapest ticket, then so be it. If all tickets were refundable in the manner you suggest, then there would be no such cheap tickets anymore.


Your contract with the airline is not contingent on them finding someone else to take your place. They don't come and re-assess your ticket price based on whether or not they were able to sell all the seats they may have been expecing to sell at the time they priced your very cheap ticket. How would you react if they came to you at check in and asked for an additional €40 as your "share" of the unsold seats remaining on the plane?

I'm not sure what you think this means.
Airlines sell a booking for carriage between A and B. The ticket you are given is just the documentation of this booking.
Airlines do not sell seats. They may sell a seat assignment but this is different

When you cancel a booking your ticket becomes invalid for travel. The airlines revenue management system may or may not increase the available inventory and then offer that inventory for sale. Even if you cancel a booking and the airline sells another booking to someone else it does not mean your returned inventory was used..

It is very unlikely that anyone at Easyjet can tell what happened with your booking and its related inventory on this flight. Even detailed history searches on inventory and booking for he flight may not reveal if your booking was "resold"

Even if the flight was full and oversold it does not necessarily mean your booking was resold.




But even if it could proved 100% that your booking/inventory was resold you are not entitled to a refund because you had a non-refundable booking.
Since you cancelled on medical grounds you may be able to claim on your insurance, if you have insurance