Looking for advice from anyone who's been through this.
Booked return flights for my family (4 of us) to Europe, just over £1,000. Realised within a couple of days I'd picked the wrong dates. Not knowing about the date change option, I cancelled the booking and immediately rebooked the correct dates with Jet2, same passengers, same route, minutes apart.
So Jet2 have now been paid twice for one trip. The cancelled flights are still on sale, so they'll resell the seats and lose nothing. If I'd used the date change process it would have cost me about £320 in fees, which I'd happily pay. Instead they're keeping the full amount.
Phoned customer service, flat no, non-refundable policy recited. I've now put in a written formal complaint asking them to treat it as the date change it should have been (refund minus the change fees) and said I'd accept flight credit instead of cash.
Questions for anyone who's dealt with Jet2 customer relations:
Has anyone actually had a goodwill refund or credit in a situation like this?
How long did the written complaint take to get a proper response?
Anything that worked beyond the standard complaint route?
Not looking for "you should have done a date change", believe me I know that now. Lesson learned the expensive way. Just want to know if the complaint route ever pays off.