To: UK Government
No Airline bailouts without customer refunds
Bailouts and state aid to airlines following the Coronavirus should be suspended or refused until airlines obey the law and refund customers for cancelled flights
Why is this important?
Airlines at first offered cash refunds to customers whose flights have had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus. But now they are going back on that promise and offering vouchers instead. There is obviously collusion as they have all announced this action together.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/22/big-uk-airlines-and-travel-firms-denying-refunds-which-coronavirus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52370158
At the same time, they are all applying for enormous levels of public funding to prop up their businesses during the lockdown.
Sign the petition to demand that the government withhold public subsidies of the airlines until they honour their legal obligations to customers.
