Anyone used EU Claim/Bott & Co?

cam192 wrote: »

Sorry: lost track of the very large thread. :-)

Anyway it's all good news and I would recommend Bott&Co if other routes fail.

I would always recommend the DIY route, but if you don't have the time to devote I'm glad you've found a NWNF sols that's worked for you and in the end, you got a portion of your due compensation.

I have seen another post where Bott pulled out. I would not expect to have to pay for them not progressing and, should you decide to chance your luck in court, I would expect 100% of the compensation to be yours....although if they won't take it on you need to think carefully whether you want to do it yourself or just forget about it

DrA_Harrogate wrote: »

Dave - it would be useful both to your good self and to the rest of us inhabitants to know *why* Bott recommend discontinuation. They have huge experience in this area so it would be useful all round to know their reasoning. And you never know someone here may provide a contrary view and the appropriate ammunition.

Bott sent me BA's formal defence. BA have said the reason for the delay is that the inbound aircraft was delayed due to snow. There was snow at Heathrow that day so have no reason to disbelieve this. We were at Denver waiting for the return leg of this flight. From my understanding as snow would count as extraordinary circumstances this 'knock-on' delay therefore wouldn't be covered, so I'd tend to agree with Bott.

I have seen the odd story around the web about payouts for knock-on delays, but I would think such results are rare at best. I suppose you could make a case for somewhere like New York (where BA have a large crew base and plenty of aircraft knocking about) that they could've taken more action to avoid/reduce delays. Denver is 1 flight a day so I don't really see how I could argue they could've done anything more.

Looks like the end of the road. Still not heard back from Bott, but I guess if they were pulling out of cases and dumping charges on their clients it would be well documented on here so hopefully, nothing to worry about.

I am right in saying that Bott issued a press release about various wins caused by knock on weather delays in fact......
...... NoviceAngel goes digging .....

Ok I'm back,

Hmmm couldn't find what I was looking for, might be confusing it with the bird strikes victory, all I could find was the general guidance http://www.bottonline.co.uk/flight-delay-compensation/claim-guides/flight-compensation-bad-weather

I agree then, it's certainly not an impossible case to win but a difficult one. Mark2spark did write about knock on weather delays http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=59429463&postcount=580

Still just as valid as the day it was written. Dave - I hope you can persuade Bott to fight the case for you, but if not we'll all do our best here to help if you want to go it alone.

Cheers,

NoviceAngel

Vauban wrote: »

See here for weather knock on delays:

http://www.flightdelays.co.uk/blog/2015/1388/another-win-at-court-for-flight-delays

Perhaps see if these people will take it on for you.

Becoming a bit less impressed with Bott.

EDIT: and this

http://www.flightdelays.co.uk/blog/2015/1395/another-weather-court-victory-for-flight-delays

There it is, knew I'd read it somewhere, thanks Vauban, your encyclopaedia of a brain comes to the rescue!