Flight delay compensation, all other non-EU airlines

bigred23

Hi all,
Wondering if you could help me. Back in June 2013 I was traveling back from Tulsa to London via Chicago using United Airlines. There was a storm over Chicago so we were delayed so we would have missed our connection.


They had a choice of putting on a later from Chicago to London 4hours later or us fly to Houston then back to London.


They flew us to Houston and we landed in Houston 30 minute flight and was delayed for 8+ hours. It was due to maintenance on a new jet on which apparently they already knew about before changing our flights. Total delay time 10+ hours.


I do not have the flight details of the second flight.
Do I still have a case?

JPears

None, because non-EU airline flying from non-EU country. Sorry.

bigred23

Thank you for the reply but the Q&A doesn't say anything about re-routing.


Do I not get compensation on the flight from Houston to London because that was a 8 hour delay.

Justice13075

No because you only get compensation when flying into the EU if you are flying on a EU airline

foxybkk

Hi - finding this forum a little confusing so hope I have posted in the right place.....

My London to Bangkok flight with Gulf Air was delayed 9 hours and the delay took place on the Bahrain to Bangkok leg.

I have been trying to skim read some of the eu law docs floating around the internet and all examples I have found about connecting flights seem to concern where the connection is missed because of a delay on the first leg.

I can't find anything where the actual delay occurred on the second leg.

I feel one could easily make a case that you are buying a ticket from London to Bangkok and only the delay at Bangkok is important, not where it occurred.

This is especially true of this case as I have never taken a connecting flight before so took the trouble of calling Gulf Air ahead of my flight and confirmed that indirect flights were treated as a single flight.

The language and presentation used on their website also leads one to believe it is treated as a single flight.

Does anyone have any thoughts if you could make/win such an argument in the small claims court?

Thanks!

JPears

It has been the case the people either win or loose at the court stage, depnding on the judge, as to wether a delay on a multileg trick is a valid claim. Emirates were quite good at defending cases, but usually where the delay was on the first leg resulting in a missed connection.
Your understanding of the single ticket concept is one that garners most favour with members of this forum, where it is with the same airline. The EU appears to be tightening up on this aspect, infavour of the passeneger. Follow this link for links to latest news on this matter:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=70808296&postcount=9557

Croxley4

I've recently submitted a claim via Resolver to American Airlines regarding a 244 minute delay on 24th March 2016, flight no AA109 (BA1545) scheduled to depart LHR at 11.35 for LA. They have responded saying it was due to the weather which I've been told is a standard response but having checked the historical weather data for LA it states it was calm and clear, similarly at LHR there were no issues with the weather and ours was the only delayed flight we saw whilst at the airport . I've escalated it to claims but am interested to know if anyone else has submitted a claim and if so where are you with it?

Vauban

Please don't start your own thread. Use the non-EU airline discussion thread. (If each flight had its own thread, the forum would be impossible to use!)

TracyGlos

Yes we also had that info BUT the flight was delayed because the inbound flight was delay from it's previous location. So america airlines changed the inbound plane tail number after the normal plan was delayed getting to the previous location! phew! Going to try and pursue this and it then falls outside an acceptable reason for delay.

Justice13075

Please put on the correct thread