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Turning customer delight into disgust

By Lucy Kellaway

Published: August 24 2008 20:24 | Last updated: August 24 2008 20:24

I shall try to keep this story brief as the details are tedious even to me – and it is my money that is at stake.

Last March I visited the EasyJet website and bought six flights to Menorca for £1,285.80. The promised e-mail confirmation didn’t arrive, and on the “My EasyJet” page there was no record of the booking. So I went through the rigmarole of booking the tickets again. This time all went smoothly – until my bank statement arrived and I saw that EasyJet had pocketed the money twice.

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