Compensation for delayed flights Discussion Area

Dave_TH

Centipede100 wrote: »

You are beating about the bush by having told them they are wrong, issue the LBA without further bush-beating...

Can see your point but don't fully agree, my complaint went in on the 2nd January 2013 and I now have a reply on the 9th, I suspect a judge would want a bit more dialog than one letter each over one week.

rusty_frog

Centipede100 wrote: »

Post #4742 from earlier today refers!

The most the defendant can claim is £50 for each of airline solicitor, a witness (usually someone from flight operations) and a barrister.

In your example, the airline can employ the finest lawyer they want from Philadelphia but unless he/she has the right UK qualifications, they would not have an automatic right to address the court and therefore will have had a wasted journey.



In that same example the defendant airline would not therefore IMO be able to claim the £50 attendance fee or the associated travel costs for the Philadelphia flyer....!!

I sign in to this forum every day and I thought I had read just about every page.
However I must have missed this one!
Thanks for the info. Centipede.

monone

Flight cancelled due to bad weather despite departure airport (Heathrow) and arrival airport (Newcastle) operational. Should I continue or am I banging my head etc?

scluryb

Mark2spark wrote: »

You entitled to a meal and refreshments for now. You may be entitled to compensation depending on the reason for the delay.
My bigger fear, if I were you, would be to take them at their word and not check in until the early afternoon, and then find you are denied boarding for late check in !!
Does the text say anything about that?

Thanks. They do mention in the text that I can check in 3hrs before the new time so fingers crossed I should be ok. I've managed to find out that the reason for the delay is a knock on effect from a delay in the Maldives a few days ago. This may have been due to bad weather, but not had 100% convincing response. I wonder if weather counts as the reason for all knock on delays? There must come a point when you can't keep blaming weather from days ago.

monone

Centipede100 wrote: »

You need to give us more details to be able to fully answer your question. Flight number, date and times would be a start plus what did the airline give as a written reason for the cancellation.

[FONT=&quot]Cancelled Flight BA 1334 LHR to NCL 16:10 Wed 12 Dec[/FONT] they adivse me cancelled beacuase of adverse weather conditions.

JAMFE355

russetred wrote: »

I've just read the delayed flights article and I just need to check is the compensation for each passenger and not per party? If its per passenger I and my family may be entitled to claim for rather a lot of money.
Monarch flight from luxor delayed by 7 hours and 41 minutes due to airline's fault.Flight distance 3960km makes for £480 and there's 5 of us! :eek: Holy crap is that right? would sure as heck make up for one of the worst delays I have ever experienced at an airport

Do you have the flight no etc for this delay as i was on the same flight but im struggling to get all the info ?

KerryLou

Last August we flew with Etihad. We booked tickets with them from London to Koh Samui (all Etihad flights). The outbound flight consisted of 3 flights. London - Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi - Bangkok, Bangkok to Koh Samui. The first flight left and arrived on time. There was a one hour delay on the second flight leaving Abu Dhabi which resulted in us missing our connection in Bangkok. We finally arrived in Koh Samui eleven and a half hours later than scheduled! Etihad is saying that they won't pay compensation as the delayed leg of the trip originated outside of the EU. My argument is that we booked one ticket from London to Koh Samui not 3 separate tickets. Therefore our flight originated within the EU and arrived at its final destination eleven and a half hours later. Anyone got advice on where I stand with this?
Many thanks.

anskills

I was just about to begin this process, and wondered what everybody thought of my case before i began.

we were delayed almost 8 hours due to technical problem with our Jet2 plane from newcastle to palma. we took off, came straight back down, sat on runway for 1 hour whilst problem was fixed. took off again, came straight back down again. we were then decanted back indoors, given £10 vouchers each (which didn't go far), and then waited on another plane for 6 hours before heading off. we got in 02:35AM instead of 7:45PM, which ruined our onward travel problems, and the first day or so of the holiday.

i have never complained or claimed compensation for anything, but on this occasion i felt poorly treated and actually felt in danger as the technical problem with cabin pressure was one which is fairly serious in nature. it felt like we had been shot down on the second landing! ha ha - i wasn't laughing at the time though, trust me!

kevstarkie

My flight on flight stats says diverted, would you say this would be a good case for a claim. It was vs016 on the 29/10/2010, on Virgin atlantic from MCO to LGW.

WE left Orlando and about 45 mins into the flight it went back to Orlando as they thought there was smoke inside the plane and they didnt know where it was coming from.

We got off, waited, and were eventually put in a hotel for the night. The flight the next day was over 24hrs later and we landed nearly 24 hrs later than we were supposed to.

Surely they cant claim no compensation is necessary on this occasion.

happychap7

Hi
Is there anyone else in the forum who was on the above flight and kept the letter handed out to all passengers at the Airport detailing reasons for the delay which was ' Operational disruption within the Thomson Airways Fleet.' I no longer have mine and I am pre empting Thomson asking for this. If they ever reply to my letters !