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How do I get a refund for a Ryanair flight I missed due to personal emergency?

A simple 10 step guide for solving this common Ryanair problem quickly and effectively by GetHuman

Before you get started, be sure you have: Email address on the account, Ticket number, Booking reference, Date of booking, Flight number, Name on the ticket

You can file a claim for a refund a couple of different ways and we can help. If you would like to submit this issue to them to review, you can submit a claim here and someone will review your case and decide whether or not a refund is in order.

From the drop down menu marked "Reason for Refund Request" click "Death or serious illness of a customer booked to travel"

Then, enter your flight reservation number.

Click if this is a one way ticket or a return ticket.

Enter your flight number

Enter the date of the flight

Enter your name and email address.

Finally, enter the CAPTCHA in the box, then select the option for "I wish to apply for a refund for ALL customers and for ALL flights booked on this flight reservation" then click "Submit refund request"

Sometimes you can't find all of the information on your flight for the refund. In this case you will need to contact them directly. The best way to do this is by using their live chat and not their phone number. Open this link to start the chat.

Enter your information and then Start the Chat. The chat may tell you that the queue is full. Wait for someone else to finish their issue and you will be added to the queue to eventually speak to a Ryanair rep. Good luck!

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Author: Adam • May 18th, 2017

About this Step by Step Guide

After thousands of Ryanair customers came to GetHuman in search of an answer to this problem, along with others, we decide it was high time to publish instructions. Here are just a few examples of the types of questions we were being asked or problems reported by users like you: How do I get a refund for a Ryanair flight I missed due to personal emergency?; Ryanair appear to have locked my account and despite two emails I cannot unlock it; My son was due to travel with his girlfriend on flight FR**** requests were made for people to st...; I am unsure of the full costs for my party that is booked to fly to and from Seville, as i have j...; wish to return from same airport thst we arrive in(out rygge) in Torp(want to return from Rygge); I have reservation YIYUWB (STANSTED TO RYGGE FOR *ND MAY. MY RETURN JOURNEY RESERVATION(JNSNGJ) O...... So we put together this guide to try to help. It has 10 step(s) to it. It takes an average of 27 minutes to get through these steps according to other users, including time spent working through each step and contacting Ryanair. And we tried to include a checklist of information you'll need when you try to fix this yourself. Best of luck and please let us know if you successfully resolve your issue with this.

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