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Wizzair - Cancelled 2 successive flights and We flew with a different airline
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Do you have a citation as to exactly where this is stated, as I haven't found it? In any case, the price paid is pertinent in the event of reimbursement under article 8 but doesn't seem to have any relevance under article 7.
Edit: I've spotted what I think you're referring to, in article 3:
Yes, a worthwhile debate, but to me there isn't such a thing as a "twice cancelled flight", it would be two cancelled flights (in that the combination of date and flight number uniquely identifies a flight) and I'd expect them to be treated as such by the airline when assessing compensation, subject as ever to the root cause(s).
Edit: perhaps worth noting C--832/18 A and Others v Finnair Oyj, which established the principle of multiple compensation payments when rerouting:
Article 7(1) thereof, must be interpreted as meaning that an air passenger who has received compensation for the cancellation of a flight and has accepted the re-routing flight offered to him is entitled to compensation for the delay of the re-routing flight, where that delay is such as to give rise to entitlement to compensation and the air carrier of the re-routing flight is the same as that of the cancelled flight
The alleged Ringleader.........
I can spell, my iPad can't.
So flying from a Non EU destination with Whizzair rules out 261/2004 regulations?
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No, the flight was operated by Wizz Air UK (Codes W9/WUK) and not Wizz Air Hungary (W6/WZZ). These are different airlines operating to different procedures.
Compensation will be payable for one flight under the UK equivalent, however as this was a flight departing the EU, EU law will be applicable. The other will not be due to the well publicized issues at EGGW.
Wizz Air UK is no longer an EU carrier. This is factual.
I can spell, my iPad can't.
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The runway was closed on Monday due to it being unsafe for operation.
Many things at Luton are Wizz's fault, the closure of a runway, especially one they weren't the last to use, isn't one of them.
I can spell, my iPad can't.
I must confess Wizz air's actual website to make the claim wasn't that bad , once I found the link.