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How have these Budget Airlines Got Away With It ?

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  • dmg24
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    dpassmore wrote: »
    You have forgot to mention that BA are less likely to abandon you at an isolated aerodrome and require you to find and finance your own way home.

    Are they? The people stuck sleeping in T5 last month would no doubt disagree with you. Granted some of BA's airports tend to be more centrally located but if they cancel a flight you have the same options as with any other airline.
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  • RichandJ
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    dmg24 wrote: »
    I have a wider knowledge of the subject than what I read on MSE. ;)

    Another FTer ?
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  • Butts
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    edited 20 January 2011 at 11:29PM
    dmg24 wrote: »
    I have a wider knowledge of the subject than what I read on MSE. ;)

    OK substantiate your claim-:o as I far as i can ascertain it has no foundation in reality......perhaps you would care to impart your " wider knowledge of the subject" to enlighten the rest of us
  • richardw
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    dpassmore wrote: »
    You have forgot to mention that BA are less likely to abandon you at an isolated aerodrome and require you to find and finance your own way home.

    er Regulation EC261/2004 applies to all airlines http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32004R0261:EN:HTML

    So all airlines should be looking after you in accordance with the regulation and if they don't you can complain to the National Enforecement body.
    Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.
  • dzug1
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    dmg24 wrote: »
    Are they? The people stuck sleeping in T5 last month would no doubt disagree with you. Granted some of BA's airports tend to be more centrally located but if they cancel a flight you have the same options as with any other airline.


    But T5 is hardly an 'isolated aerodrome'. Not like Rzeszow for example

    And in 'normal' circumstances BA might be a bit more readily forthcoming than some of the budgets.
  • dzug1
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    richardw wrote: »
    So all airlines should be looking after you in accordance with the regulation and if they don't you can complain to the National Enforcement body.
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Who will make a note in their statistics and do nothing.
  • richardw
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    dzug1 wrote: »
    Who will make a note in their statistics and do nothing.

    Exactly or a bit more than nothing. If only they were enforced.
    Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.
  • dmg24
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    dzug1 wrote: »
    But T5 is hardly an 'isolated aerodrome'. Not like Rzeszow for example

    And in 'normal' circumstances BA might be a bit more readily forthcoming than some of the budgets.

    So it is ok to leave people stranded at LHR but not at an outpost? If an airline cannot help at their passengers at their main hub, it does not bode well for their outposts.
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  • Butts
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    Butts wrote: »
    OK substantiate your claim-:o as I far as i can ascertain it has no foundation in reality......perhaps you would care to impart your " wider knowledge of the subject" to enlighten the rest of us


    Well put up or shut up.........

    Where is your evidence that BA Passengers had as many problems getting refunds as Ryanair's or are you prepared to retract the comment:D
  • dickydonkin
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    dmg24 wrote: »
    Are they? The people stuck sleeping in T5 last month would no doubt disagree with you. Granted some of BA's airports tend to be more centrally located but if they cancel a flight you have the same options as with any other airline.

    Were they not stuck because of the weather?

    I am referring to the numerous occasions where Ryanair abandon passengers without reasonable justification and leave them to find their own way home - not when weather and other safety aspects prevent flying.

    But I think you already knew that.
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