{"id":28505,"date":"2025-09-18T07:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/28505\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T07:27:09","slug":"passenger-who-bought-saver-flights-with-aer-lingus-not-entitled-to-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/28505\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger who bought \u2018saver\u2019 flights with Aer Lingus not entitled to refund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The passenger was seeking reimbursement of \u20ac1,667.56\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The case was heard in Swords District Small Claims Court\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7c2e707f-4b98-4eb1-bc7b-dfeef0fbb4b7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The case was heard in Swords District Small Claims Court<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aer Lingus\u2019s consumer approach may have been \u201cunfriendly\u201d, but the airline was within its rights to refuse to refund a customer who decided not to travel to the Algarve, a judge has ruled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Joseph Kenny, an upholsterer from Dublin, bought four \u2018saver\u2019 tickets from Aer Lingus at a cost of over \u20ac1,600. He and his party had planned to travel to Portugal on December 27, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The passenger was seeking reimbursement of \u20ac1,667.56 The case was heard in Swords District Small Claims Court Aer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[601,72,9924,23485,61,60,2888],"class_list":["post-28505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aer-lingus","tag-business","tag-dublin-courts","tag-eimear-cotter","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}