Two class actions allege Six Flags Theme Parks Inc. has continued to automatically charge monthly and season pass holders despite closing its amusement parks through mid-May due to COVID-19.

Both lawsuits, filed on Friday and Monday in the Central District of California federal court, allege that Six Flags used credit and debit card information to charge customers soon after announcing on March 13 that its parks had closed.

"Six Flags has made the unconscionable decision to keep charging its hundreds of thousands of membership and season pass holders monthly membership fees while closing 100 percent of its theme parks as the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, rages throughout the world and the United States economy has gone into a deep recession," says Monday's complaint, filed by Bursor & Fisher's Yeremey Krivoshey, on behalf of Francis Ruiz, a Los Angeles resident who claims Six Flags charged him $9.95 a month on March 30 and denied him a full refund. "Thus, defendants have made the deliberate decision to bilk their customers on a monthly basis as the country is effectively shut down."