Easyjet delayed due to ill pilot

bagand96

bobblebob said:

Out of interest im guessing this flight ran at a massive loss for Easyjet? Food vouchers, compensation, airport fines for being late and extra crew costs must add up.

Do they have insurance for stuff like this?

It's hard to judge exactly because there's many variables. But a typical Airbus A320 seats 180 passengers. So at £220 a head for delay compensation that alone is £39,000.

That said not every passenger will claim. Some probably don't even know they're entitled, others may accept the first "fob off" from the airline.

Whether they have insurance or not is a good question, the insurance might be prohibitively expensive, especially for easyJet this year! 

eskbanker

My suspicion would be that they'd self-insure against risks like this, which are fundamentally part of operating a geographically dispersed business reliant on small numbers of highly qualified employees - £39K of compensation sounds like a large figure, but having shifts of trained and available staff deployed all around Europe ready to step in at short notice would be prohibitive!