22 hour delay

Doshwaster

Centipede100 wrote: »

Compensation claims will be considered for delays that have occurred up to 6 years ago (small claims court time limit), once the delay compensation challenge has been ruled on in passengers' favour in the Autumn.

If the delay was due to technical issues then in most cases this is covered by compensation. You will almost certainly have to take the airline to court as compensation is not automatically paid.

The world has gone compensation mad! Are you really suggesting that I should take an airline to court for an engineering delay 6 years ago? All for the cost of a taxi and a couple of meals!

I'd rather fly in a safe plane and if that means waiting, then so be it. I don't want the airlines to feel pressurised into flying for fear of compensation claims.

Centipede100

Doshwaster wrote: »

The world has gone compensation mad! Are you really suggesting that I should take an airline to court for an engineering delay 6 years ago? All for the cost of a taxi and a couple of meals!

I'd rather fly in a safe plane and if that means waiting, then so be it. I don't want the airlines to feel pressurised into flying for fear of compensation claims.

I am not suggesting you do anything! I am merely clarifying, for those contemplating making a claim, what the temporal limits are for commencement of any possible legal action should that prove necessary in the furtherance of a claim.

Nobody here is suggesting that airlines should be pressurised into flying unsafe aircraft, as most of us fly on them at some stage or other.

neilbond007

And people wonder why the prices of holidays and flights go up....

callum9999

neilbond007 wrote: »

And people wonder why the prices of holidays and flights go up....

I don't. Rising fuel costs, lower demand, currency fluctuations are 3 of the biggest off the top of my head. Compensation makes very little difference whatsoever in the grand scheme of things.

I'm not a fan of excessive compensation claims, but when there is seemingly an EU law stating that you should be given £X in compensation - why on earth would you opt-out of receiving it?

Bob_the_Saver

callum9999 wrote: »

I don't. Rising fuel costs, lower demand, currency fluctuations are 3 of the biggest off the top of my head. Compensation makes very little difference whatsoever in the grand scheme of things.

I'm not a fan of excessive compensation claims, but when there is seemingly an EU law stating that you should be given £X in compensation - why on earth would you opt-out of receiving it?

Let people opt in and pay a surcharge

stoneman

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Let people opt in and pay a surcharge

Bob, that may have been the single most common sense statement you have ever made on this board.
Now go and ruin it by saying you were being facetious;)

Bob_the_Saver

stoneman wrote: »

Bob, that may have been the single most common sense statement you have ever made on this board.
Now go and ruin it by saying you were being facetious;)

Can I delete it?

bagand96

Not nice nor helpful to anyone...

I was of course being facetious, although I don't think I was being not nice...

They'd probably have made the UK anyway, or at least if it had packed up mid flight, the aircraft is more than capable of diverting on its other engine only.

And yes I am fully aware of the regulations and the exciting judgement we all await from the EU Circus. I am genuinely perplexed though that the public at large cant cope with the fact that aeroplanes might go wrong. And that if they do go wrong, what exactly a British airline, with a broken plane in Turkey is supposed to do about it without causing a delay?

It's not just this regulation, it's the compensation culture in general.

callum9999

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Let people opt in and pay a surcharge

I don't think it should even exist in that form - this is precisely what travel insurance is for.

I don't agree with the compensation aspect of the law (as far as I'm concerned, they should be compelled to get you to your destination by re-routing you within 24hrs, and only compensate you your actual expenses - like food, drink and fees on hotel rooms you couldn't use etc.) but as the law does exist, I wouldn't hesitate to claim on it. And although people on here moan, I'd be shocked if they turn down money from their airlines.