Property News · January 5, 2016

I’m left in limbo after my flight to Sharm el-Sheikh was grounded


Destination is ‘banned’ by the authorities … but we can’t get a refundIn September I booked a three-leg trip with Opodo to Sharm el-Sheikh via Instanbul, then onward to Lagos before returning to London.My trip was scheduled for November. Then the British government placed travel restrictions on all flights to Sharm el-Sheikh. However, Turkish Airlines, which was flying the Istanbul to Sharm el-Sheikh leg, refuses to amend or refund my booking as the Turkish government has not imposed flight restrictions. Opodo says it can’t, and won’t, refund my other flights. Travel insurance tells me that if I go to Sharm el-Sheikh my policy will be invalid so if I find myself in a medical emergency I will not be covered and I would not be aided by the British Consulate if anything happened to me while out there as I would have gone against Foreign Office instructions not to fly to the country. I have had to cancel the entire trip, losing the £580 in air fares and hotel and transfer costs. Had my flight been direct from the UK to Sharm el-Sheikh I would have been refunded. Opodo is willing to allow me to be placed at risk and lose money simply due to a loophole in the rules. This is appalling. OE, LondonI booked BA flights to Sharm el- Sheikh for April 2016. Now, after the terrorist attack, we no longer wish to go and it’s possible that government travel restrictions will be extended to prevent us, anyway. But BA will not let us cancel the flights, even though they might never happen, so we are in limbo, unable to book another holiday. TD, London Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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