On Tuesday, Norwegian stopped selling flexible tickets on some routes because it doesn’t want to be an insurance company for Flyr’s passengers.
By purchasing the most flexible ticket with the possibility of cancellation, you have the possibility of obtaining a refund of the money, which uncertain Flyr passengers seem to have taken advantage of.
Tuesday is a fateful day for Flyr. The company, founded in 2020, is looking to raise new funds to stay afloat and the deadline for the crisis issue – the capital increase – expires at 4:30 pm on Tuesday. Eventually, the company could go bankrupt.
– We have closed the sale of flexible tickets on some of our routes because we cannot be an insurance company for Flyr customers. This is not something we want to do and is temporary, initially until November, Norwegian communications director Esben Tuman tells VG.
The sale stopped at 2.30pm
Flexible ticket sales on a number of routes operated by both Norwegian and Fly were stopped at around 2.30pm.
This happens after the Consumer Council previous Tuesday he suggested to VG readers that this was a possibility.
Tuman says he sympathizes with the fact that many airline passengers are unsafe.
– We don’t do this to punish them, but when air passengers buy flexible tickets to insure themselves, they move our customers, says Tuman.
These are the paths
It is on the following routes that Norwegian has closed the sale of the most flexible tickets, Flex, until November, all from Oslo: Nice, Rome, Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga and Las Palmas (Gran Canaria).
Tickets will still be on sale for which it is possible to change the date by paying a fee.
Tuman says flexible ticket sales on these routes increased on Tuesday.
– We follow the sales by the hour and have seen the movements, he says.
If you’ve used your regular payment card to pay for the flight, according to Consumer Council lawyer Thomas Iversen, you’re sure to get your money back if an airline goes bankrupt.
– If you paid by card, both debit and credit, you are entitled to a refund from the card issuer in the event of a flight cancellation – for whatever reason, Iversen says and notes that it is stated in the card agreement that you signed a time.
