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Pegasus Airlines Delayed My Refund for Services Not Delivered

Pegasus Airlines Delayed My Refund for Services Not Delivered
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September 04, 2024 7:41 pm
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I had a ticket with Pegasus for the Sabiha Gökçen - Cologne flight on 4 September 2024, Wednesday at 09:45. On the evening of 2 September, around 19:45, I logged into the Pegasus application to change my ticket. After Pegasus charged my Revolut card through the application, the application returned an error message indicating: ‘we cannot perform your transaction’. When I tried again, Pegasus charged the same amount from my card for the second time and the system returned the same error. Although I have used the same card many times before, I thought there may have been an issue with my non-Turkish card and therefore tried to perform the same transaction with my Akbank (Turkish) card. The same problem was repeated: Pegasus collected the money, but the ticket change did not take place. In the meantime, I called Pegasus customer services. The customer representative I was able to connect to on the phone insistently said ‘there is a problem with your bank card’ even though I used 2 different bank cards 3 times (one domestic, one foreign). I then tried my cousin's İş bank card (also local). It yielded the same outcome. Meanwhile, the representative said ‘There might be a problem with our system; let's do your ticket change over the phone’. While the change fee was €38 on the application, she told me she'd have to charge €62 on the phone, then change that to €79 during our conversation. I decided to cancel the ticket altogether (it was fully flexible with no penalties) and buy a new one instead. The customer rep. said that since the changes could not be made, our card refunds would be completed within 24 hours. On 4 September afternoon, I realized that no refunds were made into either of my 2 cards for the 3 transactions. Furthermore, the "pending" transactions were now marked as "completed" prompting me to think that Pegasus deliberately went ahead with charging my cards. Speaking to my cousin, he confirmed that his refund was already processed. I called Pegasus again and this time the customer representative admitted the error, apologized and said she would start a complaints procedure and I would be emailed within 5 minutes, which she never did (so I did myself). Pegasus responded, claiming I would receive the refund within a 24-48 hour period. It's now 47 hours and 30 minutes from the transaction and no refund has been processed. Pegasus has stolen my money and has been lying about it.

Omer
Omer
September 09, 2024 11:03 pm

Regarding the issue, Pegasus responded to the complaint form I filled out on their website (which contains the same content as shared here) with the following message on September 4th at 18:54: "In response to your request, the relevant amount can be viewed in the 'pending transactions' section of your credit card until the end of the day by the bank you processed the transaction with. It will be transferred to your account by the bank at the end of the day or within 24-48 hours. If the refund is not processed within 24-48 hours, we would like to inform you that you need to contact us again." At this point, there were only 45 minutes left until the 48-hour period would end; and after the 48 hours had passed, the refund had still not been made. Unfortunately, as expected, Pegasus: 1. Did not respond to the questions posed to them. They did not clarify the difference between the refund that was not made to me and the refund that was made to my cousin. 2. Did not provide any explanation or apology regarding the transactions. 3. Did not refund the money they unjustly withheld in a timely manner. Following this, the next day, on Thursday, September 5th at 11:58, Pegasus contacted me once again, this time sending the following message: "In response to your request, necessary checks have been made and it is seen that your refund has been successfully processed to your bank. We would like to inform you that the refund period for the deducted amount to the account where the payment was made is within 3-7 business days. We would like to inform you that you can contact your bank regarding the issue. Thank you for your interest and understanding." The money was refunded that day. Due to an error on their website, Pegasus did not process the transaction and withheld the money, then refunded it approximately 60 hours later. As seen from the messages, Pegasus continues to provide mixed messages, even regarding their own processes, without including any apology message related to the issue. Here, the issue is not about the amount of money, but rather about Pegasus: 1. Despite the issue caused by their own website on Monday, September 2nd, the customer service representative acted as if the customer was at fault, 2. Withholding money for services they did not provide despite their own system errors, 3. Taking more than 48 hours to refund this unjust gain, 4. Not admitting their mistakes in a single message throughout the process or providing any explanation or apology We can observe that they have repeatedly and continuously demonstrated a series of customer service and general service failures.

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