Nice to see the Norwegian government doing absolutely nothing about the airlines using people's money as unsecured loans for liquidity.
Instead of putting pressure to refund cancelled flights, they extend the refund deadline.
I love neoliberal politicians, they're great.
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Old woman on the news: "I haven't seen my 40000 crowns [4500 USD] for 6 months, I don't know how I'm supposed to recover this."
Airline executive: "Yes, um, we have unfortunately got hundreds of thousands of tickets in our backlog because of the pandemic, and processing them-"
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Side-note: they switched from automated refunds, complying with legal standards, to manual review right at the start of the pandemic.
Instead of a week maximum, this now takes god knows how many months to refund, if it's ever even enforced.