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Check in and not flying

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Kumudu · 25/08/2025 21:42

DD is travelling with a friend overseas and they already checked in. Her friend has decided to stay longer with family so won’t fly back with DD.

Do they have to cancel her friend fly back? Or Just not show at the airport? It is easy jet. Friend happy to loose the money.

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HardworkSendHelp · 25/08/2025 21:53

If you cancel you maybe could get the airport tax back. Otherwise just do nothing.
My husband had a very sad encounter on a flight. A lady was very upset that someone was sitting in her family members seat on the plane. Her family member had checked in and had been allocated a seat next to her and they had died on holidays and airline just had someone on stand by and had her family members seat.🥲

InSpainTheRain · 25/08/2025 22:21

DD's friend should be mindful Airlines don't like that and can be difficult if it happens without reason. Also does your DD have a second leg of her flight and was the friends ticket booked at the same time with hers? If si it can affect your DD's ticket.

Cinders22 · 25/08/2025 22:42

This happened to me recently. I was advised not to cancel and leave it as a no show as it was just a few days before departure. There were 4 flights in total, I was not asked at all about the no show - the ticket was resold on standby for one flight and the rest it was empty so we made use of the extra space!

samarrange · 26/08/2025 01:09

InSpainTheRain · 25/08/2025 22:21

DD's friend should be mindful Airlines don't like that and can be difficult if it happens without reason. Also does your DD have a second leg of her flight and was the friends ticket booked at the same time with hers? If si it can affect your DD's ticket.

EasyJet absolutely do not care whether you turn up or not. In fact they quite like it if you don't — they get to keep your money and if there is a standby list it means someone gets a seat who would otherwise have got denied boarding compensation. (They don't usually overbook, but if they change the plane for on with fewer seats this can result in the last people who check in getting bumped, as happened to me a couple of months ago.)

Also, you can't book two-leg tickets with EasyJet — only point-to-point singles or returns (which all the low-cost airlines treat as two singles anyway). They can't tie one booking to the next, and since the ticket is non-refundable, again, they don't care.

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Kumudu · 26/08/2025 07:13

Thank you all.

I would tell DD that she doesn’t need to worry; EasyJet will put it as no-show.

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