Air France and Air Mauritius

Westin

*j* said:

Alan_Bowen said:

'j' Credit card companies have never accepted responsibility for EU261 claims irrespective of whether the airline has failed or not as they do not consider it a breach of contract

Thanks for that Alan.  It must have been a good argument to show that paying for a flight and it not going didn't constitute non-delivery of the contract!

I've had insurance companies initially claim that their policy didn't cover a particular set of circumstances, only to reverse their decision after an explanation showing that those circumstances were exactly what the policy did cover  (Finnair pilots in contract negotiations and refusing to cover for colleagues who declared themselves sick at short notice a few years ago, resulting in the cancellation of about 8 long haul flights from Helsinki on one day, together with their returns.)

But this claim is not for a cancelled flight which never took place. It was a 14 hour flight delay. Inconvenient I am sure but the OP flew home. I also don’t think S75 applies.  If Botts won’t continue the fight then I doubt any other ‘free’ legal firm with either. The OP can of course pay for his own solicitor to engage with the airline but I suspect it will be money lost.

*j*

Thanks Westin. It would have been better for me to concentrate when reading the OP.  I became fixated on the "The short story is that my flight to Mauritius from Paris was cancelled due to pilot illness."