Kiwi.com

Kiwi.com has been illegally holding my money for 5 months after my flight IQ 354 was canceled on March 12, 2026. They refuse to issue a cash refund to my bank card and continue sending automated template excuses. Public responses from their support on Trustpilot turned out to be complete lies. LEGAL NOTICE: 1) My case is officially registered… Read more

with the Czech Trade Inspection (ČOI) under case ID: PM8CY54. 2) I am preparing a formal complaint to the European Consumer Centre (ECC-Net) and initiating legal proceedings in Czech court for consumer fraud and failure to perform services.

I demand an immediate cash refund to my bank card! Stop hiding behind bots and process my money!

I am not sue Kiwi even excists. I booked a flight referance 791948333. Downloaded their APP 25/05/2026 even today 06/06/2026.23 hours before my flight. No trips planned. I have tried contacting them round and round. Tried to email them no good. Finally today I rang a number no good. Tried to contact them via this plantform. I got a generic… Read more

responce that they would contact me. Nothing. Do not trust this company. I am not sure if i was going through Esky at the time.

The website didn't give me a seat on the flight, so I had to buy a new ticket directly from Wizz Air. My rating: 0

I had an absolutely terrible experience with Kiwi.com and will never use this company again. My original itinerary was from Kelowna → Los Angeles → Sydney → Melbourne. The issue began when my flight out of Kelowna never arrived. Whilst waiting to board, airport staff instructed passengers to leave the boarding area and collect their luggage… Read more

because the plane was not coming.

I had never dealt with a situation like this before, so I called Kiwi.com for advice and asked what I was supposed to do next - whether they would rebook me, whether I needed to wait, etc.

The Kiwi agent I spoke to, who identified himself as “John,” assured me over the phone that Kiwi.com would issue me a full refund for my entire itinerary. However, he also told me that Kiwi could not change my booking and that I would need to book and pay for a completely new flight itinerary myself if I still wanted to travel that day.

I was confused by this, especially because the disruption was not my fault, but he reassured me multiple times that I would be refunded. He claimed this was necessary because there were no suitable replacement flights available through Alaska Airlines. Based on that assurance, I reluctantly agreed and paid for an entirely new itinerary out of pocket so I could still get home.

“John” then texted me the new booking details and told me I would receive refund correspondence the following week.

Months later, I am STILL chasing this refund.

Kiwi.com are now claiming this was a “voluntary cancellation” and that the original itinerary could still have been completed because it was supposedly only a “minor delay.” This is simply untrue. The aircraft never arrived. A basic Google search confirms this. (Alaska Airlines flight AS3403 on the 7th of February, 2026.)

Despite providing evidence and explaining the situation repeatedly, Kiwi.com offered me approximately $70 in Kiwi credits for a journey worth around $1400.

I genuinely feel deceived. I relied on the instructions and assurances of their own support agent during a stressful travel disruption, and I am now left significantly out of pocket with no accountability from the company.

Travel disruptions happen — I understand that. But the way Kiwi.com handled this situation has been unacceptable, misleading, and incredibly frustrating. I strongly encourage others to think very carefully before booking through this agency.

I genuinely cannot express how disgusted and disappointed I am with Kiwi.com. This is not some impulsive revenge review from a random customer after one bad flight. I’ve been using Kiwi for close to a decade. In fact, back in 2018, I enthusiastically left them a glowing review because at the time they genuinely felt like an amazing alternative to… Read more

the absurd and butchered prices on Skyscanner.

I still vividly remember being stranded in Spain after having my passport and wallet stolen. Money was extremely tight, and Kiwi genuinely helped me find affordable flights when I desperately needed them. I praised them publicly because I truly believed they were a company worth supporting.

Fast forward to 2026 and the difference is honestly staggering.

Not only are competitors like Skyscanner now often cheaper than Kiwi, but Kiwi’s customer support has deteriorated into one of the most incompetent and irresponsible systems I’ve ever encountered.

Before my Dubai → Manila flight with Cebu Pacific, I contacted Kiwi support around SEVEN TIMES because Cebu Pacific’s website had a bug preventing online check-in.

SEVEN TIMES.

And across all those calls — handled by multiple different employees — not a SINGLE person realised the most critical detail of the entire situation:

Airport check-in closed ONE HOUR before departure.

Not one of them had the basic awareness or professionalism to stop and think: “Wait… if online check-in is broken and airport check-in closes one hour before takeoff, then a 1 hour 40 minute layover in Dubai effectively leaves the passenger with only around 40 minutes to physically complete airport check-in.”

That unbelievably obvious realisation somehow escaped every single Kiwi representative I spoke with.

I only discovered this nightmare properly once I physically arrived at Dubai airport — at which point it was already too late.

Anyone who has ever travelled through Dubai International Airport knows how ridiculous this situation was:

* deplaning alone takes time * immigration takes time * terminal transfers take time * security checks take time * walking through one of the largest airports in the world takes time * queues take time

Yet despite repeatedly warning Kiwi that this situation could easily cause me to miss my flight, their agents kept dismissing my concerns with robotic copy-paste responses like: “Try again later.” “You will have enough time.”

No escalation. No rerouting. No meaningful solution. No accountability.

And then the EXACT scenario I repeatedly warned them about happened: I missed my flight.

What makes this so infuriating is that this was not some random unforeseeable accident. This was an obvious and entirely predictable outcome that I proactively tried to prevent well in advance.

I did everything a responsible customer could reasonably do.

Kiwi’s response afterward was honestly insulting:

* deflect blame onto the airline * ignore the mathematical reality of the timing * pretend “minimum connection times” magically override airport check-in closure rules * repeatedly send generic responses that completely ignored the actual issue

At no point did it feel like I was speaking to people genuinely trying to help. It felt like speaking to a wall programmed purely to avoid responsibility.

I booked through Kiwi. I paid Kiwi. I contacted Kiwi repeatedly BEFORE the problem happened.

Yet when their terrible handling of the situation directly contributed to me missing my flight, they washed their hands of the situation entirely.

This experience completely destroyed the trust I had built in this company over nearly a decade.

Kiwi.com may be good at selling tickets, but when real-world travel complications arise, their support appears catastrophically unequipped to deal with even the most obvious and foreseeable problems.

Avoid self-transfer itineraries with Kiwi.com at all costs unless you are fully prepared to absorb the financial consequences yourself when things inevitably go wrong.

Dont use this company! Its 1 month now and refund was not received. flight carrier has cancelled my flight from Riyadh to Cairo. And they claimed they did the refund but no information. No date and no reference for this refund. On above They didn't confirm my reservation on another flight where I missed the flight already and paid for another … Read more

new flight by myself which resulted in paying extra fees for hotel night waiting for the other flight next day. Worst experience ever and lost 220$ for those tickets

efund Not received since 28th February 2026 I have Reviewed on 31st March Received reply from Kiwi that they will look into to my matter and some one from the team will contact after a week pass, still no updates no one contacted till today at this point of time, it seems they do not wanted to refund after Requested refund on 28th February 2026.… Read more

Airline have cancelled My flight and kiwi.com only gave option of refund and that refund did not happen till today after continuous request. As they have troubled me alot i will keep on reviewing every week to them unless they will refund me.

I would give it a 0 star if I could - Do not use because it is a FRAUDULENT SCAM. I booked a ticket on kiwi.com in early January for a trip in April which involved transits. I only realized the tickets failed to provide sufficient transit time so requested to change to an earlier flight. After dilly-dallying for weeks, they failed to do… Read more

anything about it, so I had no choice but to cancel the ticket and asked for a refund in late January. kiwi.com said it has already submitted a refund request to the airline and will take two weeks to process the refund. During these past two MONTHS, I kept following up and they kept copying and pasting the same response over and over again. Belatedly realizing something is wrong, I checked with the airline, which informed me a refund request has in fact NEVER BEEN SUBMITTED by kiwi.com. My flight will depart next week, and my ticket will be forfeited if kiwi.com fails to cancel the ticket for me. I only found out after reading other online reviews that they are indeed a scam and consistently engage in fraudulent practices like this. So like other victims, looks like my ticket will likely never be refunded after all.

My advise is to never fall victim to this fraudulent scam that kiwi.com is.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES USE KIWI.COM. My partner and I had a flight to Malaysia from Bangkok and 24 hours before departure we got the sad news that her father had passed away unexpectedly. I immediately cancelled the flights, I sent a copy of the death certificate in English and in Thai to Kiwi.com but even the death of one of their customers… Read more

father 24 hours before flying they WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES refund our flight money. The company lives in a world of rules and regulations and where everyone else lives in a world of caring and compassion. In Australia the airlines will allow you to reuse the money for a future flight, but not this disgusting, deplorable and deceitful company. They have not a shred of compassion and here's hoping the money of mine that they won't refund will go to their Christmas pissup. The company is worse than a politician.

Stay away from this company the are less honest with people i book fly over the app and wen i coming to mike a payments keep say payment failed then i tru with different bank card then after 2 minutes i get confirmation email from first time wen said payment error and second time i contact them regarding this issue the said cancelled one of them… Read more

so cancelled and the tell me unfortunately one of you fly not refunded i keep explaining to them it was app error and is not my fault no one help now the want refund €7out of €213

"Connection Guarantee" does NOT guarantee covering being unable to make the connection. Worse, there is no way to contact a real person. Perhaps ironically, they sent an email telling me that I should. But, try as I might, this was of no help. We ended up shelling out for the missed connection after a canceled flight. DO NOT USE KIWI.COM They… Read more

WILL scam you by booking flights that have connections that are impossible to make. Like at airports that take longer to travel between terminals. Every other website will account for this. They purposefully do not.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Had all 5 my paid flights cancelled Only found out at check in desk. Then they blame the carrier and deny responsibility. Show details

COMPLETE SCAM!!! – Out of 740 reviews, 97% negative - as in one star ONLY. The company misleads by calling itself KIWI but they are a Czech company run by two brothers residing in Spain. They operate out of Eastern Europe. Like many other victims here, I booked a full… Read more

itinerary from Australia to Thailand and return. After days of pestering, I also signed-up for their insurance. The insurance states that they will guarantee a refund if the airline cancels etc. Guess what happened? The airline cancelled but I'm still waiting for a refund. Despite 20 messages and a legal letter to the brothers, I got no response. Don't waste your time, do the minimum mandatory legal thing and send them a letter of demand with a deadline before getting a chargeback via your credit card. I'm confident that I'll get a chargeback. According to my bank, as the company's own credit card terms and conditions require a refund, I should get one. It's a lengthy process because the credit card company have to give this mob 45 days to respond with evidence - whatever that is... B E W A R E !!!