Travel alert as thousands could be missing out on unclaimed airline vouchers, here's how to claim yours

Customers with Easyjet, British Airways and other travel operators are being urged to act quickly as time is running out on millions of pounds worth of flight vouchers.

The unclaimed vouchers are a result of airlines controversially issuing travel vouchers rather than cash refunds for holidaymakers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Passengers are now being warned that many of these vouchers will soon expire unless they are redeemed.

Unclaimed flight vouchers

It is estimated that International Airlines Group (IAG) – the parent company of BA, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling, and LEVEL – still has unclaimed vouchers worth £533 million issued during the pandemic. Easyjet meanwhile, still has around £110 million in unclaimed vouchers. EasyJet have said none of their vouchers have expired yet but some British Airways vouchers will run out in September 2023

You should have been contacted by your airline if your flight was cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions and you opted to receive the voucher. Easyjet says that you should be able to find your voucher by searching through your email inbox for the term 'flight voucher', 'easyJet voucher' or the booking reference of the disrupted flight your voucher was issued for. It is also worth checking junk and spam folders in case it is in there, as per Lancashire Live.

British Airways also say those who were affected will have been contacted and sent their voucher to the email address registered with the booking. However, they have also provided an online tool to check if you have a voucher just by entering your email address.

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Cheap Easyjet flights

The news of unclaimed vouchers comes at the same time as Martin Lewis advises customers on how to find the best deals with Easyjet by getting up early and booking them when they’re first released.

Speaking on The Martin Lewis Money Show Live, the financial guru explained that the EasyJet's winter flights for 2023-24 will go on sale tomorrow.

Martin Lewis explained to viewers that this Thursday 9 March, budget airline EasyJet will put flights on sale for the period of 1 December 2023 to 23 March 2024, but you will need to set your alarm clock to catch the best deals, as per Yorkshire Live:

Easyjet launches its Christmas flights December 1 to March 2. Easyjet’s pricing is demand based, so the more people buying, the higher the price goes.

Tickets are released this Thursday morning, could be 5, could be 6, could be 7am. The likelihood is, can’t guarantee, but if you get there very early, you will get the prices very cheap. Every time it has worked before.

So there’s no guarantees, but if you’re looking for cheap flights that time, get up early - set the alarm clock.

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Sources used:

- Yorkshire Live 'Martin Lewis gives urgent EasyJet warning with exact time and date to book extremely cheap flights'

- Lancashire Live 'EasyJet and British Airways travellers urged to act quickly as millions of pounds unclaimed'