Our TAP Air Portugal flight From San Francisco to Barcelona, scheduled for Apr 28, 2020, was canceled by the airline. We called TAP Air Portugal and asked for a full refund to our credit card, which was the original form of payment. The airline representative confirmed that a refund to a credit card would be issued. However, a few days later we received "TAP Vouchers" from the airline, which expire in March 2021, and which were not what we asked for. We called the airline again and asked for a refund to a credit card once more, but we got a reply "Vouchers are how we handle flight cancellations due to COVID-19 policy". Any attempts to get more information led to the same phrase repeated again. We filed a complaint on  but still didn't get any reply from the airline.  We believe we have a right to get a refund according to , Article 8, which is confirmed by .  Do you know what we can do next to get our money back to the credit card?
My international conference in Europe this May has been canceled due to the COVID-19. I have a ticket, purchased from TAP air Portugal, from Toronto, Canada to Lisbon. Because it is a non-refundable fare, they don't want to give a refund.  They won't allow me to reschedule later than May 31 of this year. This won't be useful for me.  What options do I have? I'd prefer to get a full refund.  (I am a US citizen if it matters)  Note: They offered to refund just the taxes, which is about 10% of the value. That's not horrible, but I'd rather have the whole thing returned.
Title of 80's movie: future-era timetraveling humans go extinct and rescue/kidnap todays air crash victims What is the title of a 80's (i believe?) movie where humans in the far future are going extinct, and are aquiring new humans by going back in time to todays world, kidnapping air travelers that are known to have died that day, from the flying passenger aircraft just before its crashing.  A key visual:    Inside a hangar, a time portal opened, and a tail of a (flying) passenger aircraft extruded into the hangar where a stairs provided access to the back door of the aircraft.  The kidnappers made sure the surviving passengers remain seated and would forget about the whole ordeal. Kidnapped humans got replaced by lookalike dummies, including things they had on them. They tried hard not to alter the timeline. Full Disk Encryption using Ubuntu Core\Snappy I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask , but anyway :   I'm running ubuntu-core (snappy) on Raspberry Pi 3 and I'm willing  to perform partition\full disk encryption using cli\code. is it possible?  thanks Is this a dismissal by hit wicket? Consider the following situation,     A batsman's bat breaks while hitting the ball after which a piece of the   bat flies in the air, hits the stumps and the bails fall down.   Is this a dismissal by hit wicket? What does ':' (colon) do in JavaScript? How to render a pixelated, occluded wireframe with freestyle? I'd like to combine these features:    The pixelated look of a wire material with anti-aliasing disabled. Proper occlusion of hidden lines.   A wireframe material produces the first feature, freestyle produces the second. Can a line set be created that produces neither double pixels nor gaps? Line thickness alone does not seem to be the answer.  There is the trick with two materials and z-offset, but I have trouble getting a really clean solution at the outline of the object. So a freestyle solution would be best.    The main problem is that freestyle (to the right) produces double pixels: Limit of the geometric sequence $\{r^n\}$, with $|r| < 1$, is $0$? Prove that the $\lim_{n\to \infty} r^n = 0$ for $|r|\lt 1$.   I can't think of a sequence to compare this to that'll work.  L'Hopital's rule doesn't apply.  I know there's some simple way of doing this, but it just isn't coming to me. :( MATLAB/OCTAVE Extracting elements from different sized vectors in a cell array "I", "me" and "myself" Possible Duplicate:           What is correct? We are a family of four: my father, my mother, my brother and me. or We are a family of four: my father, my mother, my brother and I. or We are a family of four: my father, my mother, my brother and myself. Is there always an equivalent metric which is not complete? How do you set, clear, and toggle a bit? How to move my cube left or right using touch Inputs (C#) in unity I am trying to create a 3d game in unity. I have a cube in unity and I want it to move left or right on swipe . It should move to a distance till where user swipe or take their finger off of a screen. I want it to move fast or the cube should move fast on swipe and cube should flow smooth. Like in the gif there is a circle and the user use their finger to move the circle till wherever the user swipe it and it should be instant and I want my cube to move like that at a distance till where user swipe their finger and it should be instant and fast.  I don't know how to do it. Any help is appreciated! Let's say I have the following class X where I want to return access to an internal member:  class Z {     // details };  class X {     std::vector&lt;Z&gt; vecZ;  public:     Z&amp; Z(size_t index)     {         // massive amounts of code for validating index          Z&amp; ret = vecZ[index];          // even more code for determining that the Z instance         // at index is *exactly* the right sort of Z (a process         // which involves calculating leap years in which         // religious holidays fall on Tuesdays for         // the next thousand years or so)          return ret;     }     const Z&amp; Z(size_t index) const     {         // identical to non-const X::Z(), except printed in         // a lighter shade of gray since         // we're running low on toner by this point     } };   The two member functions X::Z() and X::Z() const have identical code inside the braces.  This is duplicate code and can cause maintenance problems for long functions with complex logic.    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I have Xubuntu 18.04.3, and whenever I try to install a package through apt-get I get the following message.    Removing linux-image-5.0.0-31-generic (5.0.0-31.33~18.04.1) ... /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-5.0.0-31-generic /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub: Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub' /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 35: /etc/default/grub: FROM:: not found run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 127 dpkg: error processing package linux-image-5.0.0-31-generic (--remove):  installed linux-image-5.0.0-31-generic package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing:  linux-image-5.0.0-31-generic libdvd-pkg: Package libdvdcss2-1.4.2-1 was removed, stop processing... 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Is it possible to export a QGIS project to Mapnik xml?   I'm using QGIS 2.4 and Quantumnik does not seem to work with that version. If a subring of a ring R has identity, does R also have the identity? I know it does not make sense that if a subring of a ring $R$ is commutative, then $R$ is also commutative. (For example, the set consisting of the matrices whose all entries except (1,1)-entry are zero, is a subring of ring of 2x2 real matrices.)  I also considered the case of a ring containing a subring with identity, but I had no ideas. Maybe it seems that it does not make sense, either.  Who give me some examples supporting my guess? How to setup OpenVPN Client How to disprove this fallacy that derivatives of $x^2$ and $x+x+x+\dots\quad(x\text{ times})$ are not same. 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From the prequel trilogy we also have the , which have a shield when not moving. Does anyone other than these droids use this technology?   You may use any of the Scrapped EU, Current EU and the normal U to answer.