Mind you that the company still receives the money regardless, the only change is that they have to enforce the contract (not the other way around). Here in Germany, you would probably mandate them to charge your bank account directly and that is almost, if not impossible to get out of.
A very possible outcome I see here is that you would probably be given a window in which to checkin, which will no longer hold until 2 hours before the flight, so they can sell the seats that were not claimed a second time
A very possible outcome I see here is that you would probably be given a window in which to checkin, which will no longer hold until 2 hours before the flight, so they can sell the seats that were not claimed a second time