e-petition

data1704

Hi,
If any of you are as equally fed up as I am that there is delay, after delay by the airlines in dealing with your claim (mine is Monarch and I claimed on the 27th Nov 2012 (nearly 18 weeks ago), and have only had one 'stock' email from them, and numerious auto replies, which is in spite of the CAA writing on my behalf on the 22nd Feb), this is just to let you know, that there is now an HM Government e-petition, which can be found by following this link;
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/47077
Perhaps we can't make them pay, but perhaps we can force them to do something in a timely fashion.
Pass the link around.
Thanks

data1704

Hi Everyone,
Please, please, please sign the e-petition.
There are 95 people who have viewed this posting, but only 10 have signed the e-petition.
There are 447,904 viewings at the 'Sticky: Compensation for delayed flights Discussion Area'
Surely we can do better than this?
I know that the petition itself may not be the best thing to legally force airlines to comply with the EU ruling, but it surely must be a step in the right direction, and moreover, if we can get enough signatures, it might just get this back in the public domain and possibly get it shown on the national news just as the news channels reported the ruling in the first place back in October.
Remember, there may be a long cut-off date to the petition, but that isn't the point, the relevant government department may give a response when it gets to 10,000 signatures.
And if by some fluke it gets to 100,000 signatures, it has to be discussed in parliament.
We need to shame the airlines into acting more quickly and more certainly more responsibly.
Thanks

data1704 wrote: »

Hi,

If any of you are as equally fed up as I am that there is delay, after delay by the airlines in dealing with your claim (mine is Monarch and I claimed on the 27th Nov 2012 (nearly 18 weeks ago), and have only had one 'stock' email from them, and numerious auto replies, which is in spite of the CAA writing on my behalf on the 22nd Feb), this is just to let you know, that there is now an HM Government e-petition, which can be found by following this link;
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/47077
Perhaps we can't make them pay, but perhaps we can force them to do something in a timely fashion.
Pass the link around.
Thanks

data1704

Centipede100 wrote: »

Passengers will only get compliance to their lawful claims via the courts. No amount of petitioning is going to change that as each claim will stand or fall on its own facts and needs to be heard individually.

This is not the same type of issue as mis-selling of PPP.

Thanks for that Centipede.
Has anyone attempted to take this to court?
It's an EU ruling, so does that mean UK courts will uphold a claim?

Alan_Bowen

Interestingly, in the proposals issued last week to amend EU261, increasing the minimum delay to 5 hours before there is any right to compensation and up to 12 hours for long haul flights, the EU Commisssion also proposed deadlines for dealing with claims. Airlines will have to acknowledge within a week and deal with the claim within 8 weeks, on the other hand I read the proposals as also limiting the time to make a claim to 3 months from the date of travel. The problem we are all facing now is that the ECJ decision last year opened the floodgates and the airlines are overwhelmed with 6 years worth of delays to deal with.

Some airlines do seem to be able to cope however, BA cancelled a flight on Saturday 2nd March, I complained a week later, cheque cleared my account today, so less than a month from beginning to end.

Mark2spark

Alan_Bowen wrote: »

Interestingly, in the proposals issued last week to amend EU261, increasing the minimum delay to 5 hours before there is any right to compensation and up to 12 hours for long haul flights, the EU Commisssion also proposed deadlines for dealing with claims. Airlines will have to acknowledge within a week and deal with the claim within 8 weeks, on the other hand I read the proposals as also limiting the time to make a claim to 3 months from the date of travel. The problem we are all facing now is that the ECJ decision last year opened the floodgates and the airlines are overwhelmed with 6 years worth of delays to deal with.

Some airlines do seem to be able to cope however, BA cancelled a flight on Saturday 2nd March, I complained a week later, cheque cleared my account today, so less than a month from beginning to end.

Why would they need to increase the time period, if a tech issue is an EC?
Obviously tech issues ARE NOT EC's, and it gives the airlines longer to fix the issue.

Alan_Bowen

The are proposing to increase time limits allowed to put things right because the airlines are effctive lobbyists and have spent the last 6 months stating the judgment in October last year was unfair. This has the desired effect of substantailly reducing the number of claims the airlines will have to deal with.