Claim for extra night accommodation

jpsartre

I don't think that's been made clear and it's really nothing but a question of semantics when you're talking of a change of 30+ hour. The regulations are quite clear IMO that Ryanair should cover the cost of the OP's hotel. Whether they'll pay up and what lenghts the OP will go to pursue the money is another matter.

Tyzap

The regs are referring to last minute cancellation scenarios, within hours or days, not changes to a flying schedule four months away. Admittedly, that is not clear from the wording.

The regs are here to protect passengers from major inconvenience. Four months advance warning is a relative minor inconvenience by comparison to most actual cancellations.

The op is entitled to a full refund and is then free to make alternative arrangements.

jpsartre

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one

JPears

i agree with jps here. I think it would make a good court case.


I find nothing in the regs that differentiates between short/long notice cancellations/delays or "rescheduling"
The OP made a booking for a certain flight on a certain day, for a flight the runs most, if not all days of the week. The airline cancelled it, changed it to another day and a later time.
This is little different to the fiasco ealrier in the year with rota/staffing issues.

Tyzap

The airline industry has evolved since the regs were written over 14 years ago.

In those days the bigger problem with cancellations was to do with consolidating half empty flights. It happened to me on the way back from USA. The low cost airlines were relative fledglings and the mainline scheduled airlines had pretty firm forward schedules.

What is happening now is a relatively new phenomenon which wasn't foreseen back then. It's something that the regulators need to take account of in the future regs, but I don't see this as a high priority when it has so many other anomalies to iron out first.

I don't think the airlines should be able to get away with this type of early change once a booking has been confirmed and paid for by a passenger acting in good faith. I just don't feel it is catered for in the present regs.

JP. Who could afford to take this through the courts? There is no compensation due so no meat on the bone for a NWNF company. I can only see this type of situation languishing for a long time.