Flights to Georgia Cancelled - Refund?
Jun 21, 2019, 10:04 pm
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Flights to Georgia Cancelled - Refund?
cnn.com/2019/06/21/europe/putin-bans-flights-russia-georgia-intl/index.html
(CNN)Flights carrying Russians to nearby Georgia will be halted after anti-Russian protests flared in the former Soviet republic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a temporary flight ban to begin next month, state news agency TASS reported on Friday. It added that Putin has also ordered the repatriation of Russian citizens temporarily living in Georgia.
"Starting on July 8, 2019, Russian airlines are temporarily prohibited from carrying out air transportation (including commercial) of citizens from the territory of the Russian Federation to the territory of Georgia," TASS said.
Aeroflot pulled the route from their site, but hasn't considered the flights cancelled yet.
Anyone have experience with refunds on cancelled routes?
It sounds as though they won't be making the official call until a few days before and I'm thinking I need to rebook on another carrier as I've got a flight in a few weeks.
(CNN)Flights carrying Russians to nearby Georgia will be halted after anti-Russian protests flared in the former Soviet republic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a temporary flight ban to begin next month, state news agency TASS reported on Friday. It added that Putin has also ordered the repatriation of Russian citizens temporarily living in Georgia.
"Starting on July 8, 2019, Russian airlines are temporarily prohibited from carrying out air transportation (including commercial) of citizens from the territory of the Russian Federation to the territory of Georgia," TASS said.
Aeroflot pulled the route from their site, but hasn't considered the flights cancelled yet.
Anyone have experience with refunds on cancelled routes?
It sounds as though they won't be making the official call until a few days before and I'm thinking I need to rebook on another carrier as I've got a flight in a few weeks.
Jun 27, 2019, 4:52 am
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Pobeda will automatically cancel any ticket with any segment on any cancelled flight (which is against the law, I believe).
Georgian Airways says they won't allow a refund on non-refundable tickets and would fly such passengers on other airlines via Armenia instead. (also unlawful, I believe).
Aeroflot for some reason closed one-way bookings to Georgia even for June (but happily sells returns on same flights!)
Many Russian airlines offer reroutings to Erevan and sometimes Sochi, Vladikavkaz or Baku. Ural Airlines offer rerouting to wherever you like inside Russia and CIS.