{"id":374260,"date":"2026-02-23T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/easyjet-backtracks-elderly-couple-900-refund-11-hour-schedule-change\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:00:17","slug":"easyjet-backtracks-elderly-couple-wins-900-refund-after-11-hour-flight-schedule-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=374260","title":{"rendered":"EasyJet Backtracks: Elderly Couple Wins \u00a3900 Refund After 11-Hour Flight Schedule Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European ultra-low-cost carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254859\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/easyjet\/\"  >easyJet<\/a><\/span> has agreed to refund an elderly couple more than $1,000 after rescheduling their booked Verona flight from late afternoon to a 6:40 AM departure, a schedule alteration that renders their trip impractical at best. The passengers indicated that easyJet offered them a full refund, but that this was something customer service representatives from the airline had initially refused to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier ultimately compensated this couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374261,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374260\/revisions\/374261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}