Iberia Ryanair Easyjet allow free ticket changes save summer holidays - The airlines have pulled out the heavy artillery to sell the most tickets in the summer stretch. Specifically, they have modified their change policy allowing passengers to change the flight date completely free of charge a few hours after the plane takes off.
The most flexible is easyJet, the low-cost British airline allows until September 30 (included) to change the flight free of charge up to 2 hours before departure. The company has decided to eliminate flight change fees in order to sell more tickets in an uncertain environment due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thus, if the passenger decides to change the date and fly later, he will only pay the difference if the new fare is higher. In the event that it is the airline that cancels the flight, the company will give the client several options, including the transfer to another flight, a voucher for the value of the reservation or the possibility of requesting a refund for the full amount.
Ryanair has also removed its flight change fees for new bookings made before 30 September, which include travel before 31 December. Specifically, it allows you to make up to two flight changes, although these must be made at least 7 days before the original scheduled departure dates.
The Irish airline has launched two lightning offers with low fares to encourage ticket sales, one to round off the summer season, with 200,000 seats at 19.99 euros to travel between August and October if booked before August 18.
Iberia Ryanair Easyjet allow free ticket changes save summer holidays
And another to activate the winter season, with flights from 19.99 euros to travel between November and March. On Tuesday, Ryanair announced the launch of 21 new routes from Spanish airports for the winter season, since the firm is confident that air traffic will return to prepandemia levels as vaccination programs progress.
Air Europa joins the party and allows its customers to change the flight date without applying a change penalty and paying only the fare difference if the original fare is not available. In your case, for the change to be free it must be made 7 days before the start date of the flight.
Iberia Ryanair Easyjet allow free ticket changes save summer holidays
The Iberia group, which includes Iberia, Iberia Express and Iberia Regional Air Nostrum, has also become more flexible and explains on its website that all reservations can be modified at no cost within 15 days prior to the flight date. But in your case, the change must be justified.
For example, if the destination country establishes entry bans or imposes a mandatory confinement or quarantine that cannot be avoided with a negative covid test certificate performed shortly before travel; if the passenger is subjected to quarantine in his place of origin superventively; if he tests positive for Covid - 19 or if the appointment for the vaccine coincides with the dates of the flights.
Iberia Ryanair Easyjet allow free ticket changes save summer holidays
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El Corte Inglés completes its new logistics subsidiary: use of its commercial area, 5,000 employees and the group's chief financial officer
El Corte Inglés has a new roadmap and the first step will be with the opening of a subsidiary dedicated to logistics, which will start its activity this autumn. And as proof of the progress of the plan, the company has formally constituted the company to channel all activity, with services inside and outside Spain and has put at the head of it as administrator the financial director of the group.
This logistics subsidiary, which is part of the Strategic Plan for the next 5 years of the company, will be called El Corte Inglés Logistics, and will bring together the 5,000 employees of the company who are dedicated to this area.
The key to the project would lie, according to the Information, in its commercial area. A few years ago, the company had decided to sell many of its logistics centers–excluding Valdemororo, in Madrid, and Montornès del Vallès, in Barcelona -. After failing to achieve this, the company's goal is now to take advantage of its current infrastructure and put it at the service of third parties to become its logistics operator from start to finish.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs and consultant Kearney have worked as advisors in this operation that has been brewing for 2 years. The experience and, especially, the 1.2 million square meters of surface that the company has distributed in 50 warehouses are its best guarantees.
The General Meeting of Shareholders of El Corte Inglés, held on July 23, gave the green light to a roadmap for the next 5 years that aims to clean up the company's accounts after the incontestable impact of the pandemic on them.
The department store company recorded a net loss of 2,945 million euros in 2020, in what was the first negative result in its history. Decline that was explained by provisions and deterioration on some of its assets worth 2,500 million euros. Revenues fell by 31%, to 10,432 million euros. The retail area took the brunt with an internal decline of 19%.
Also in 2020, and as proof of the impact of COVID-19, the company carried out the first ERE in its history, which after negotiations with unions culminated in the departure of 3,292 workers.
Thus, and with the clear need to leave behind this turbulent 2020, the Strategic Plan has the mission of doubling the result with an Ebitda of 1,700 million euros, reducing debt by 60% and multiplying online sales to represent 30% of the Group's turnover.
Marta Álvarez, president of the group, assured a few weeks ago that El Corte Inglés was already "in full recovery", and that, subtracting the effect of tourism, "the first quarter of 2021 was going to close with figures very close to those of 2019". The forecast did not fail.
El Corte Inglés closed the first quarter of 2021 with an increase in revenues of 50.2% over the previous year, to 2,511 million euros. This result consolidated "a strong recovery" and placed it again at levels close to those achieved in 2019. Excluding, of course, the travel division and the impact that tourism has on retail.