British Airways

Argonauts

Due to fly to tampa on Monday October 7th 2024
hirricane Helene was due on the Wednesday !! Tampa airport in a zone A evacuation zone mandatory 
BA not cancel the flight at ( lady at desk tell me the next four days are cancelled ) I had to cancel my flight got £190 from a £1045 flights fee . They refused to help me “ you can get onboard the govt website doesn’t say it’s not safe “
travel insurance declined claim “ you can’t just cancel your flight due to severe weather “ if I’d a flown there and then come back I’d have got some compo , I wouldn’t have got home for five days at least and where would I have stayed !!
completed form on BA site still no answer , surely morally it was wrong to ask people to board a flight into a known hurricane zone , the mayor and governor said go away don’t come and only wanted a credit note from BA not cash back 

awaiting an answer from BA 

Have I got a leg to stand on 

eskbanker

See what they come back with, but as that flight did operate on that Monday, the onus would be on you to prove that any reason not to travel on it was justifiable - was it a flight-only booking or was it a BA Holidays one by any chance (which would bring the Package Travel Regulations into play)?

Argonauts

Flight only
some of our hotels had cancelled
car hire amazingly give all money back 
but said I may have not be given a car due to the hurricane

that would have been fun

eskbanker

I can understand BA not coughing up, but it does seem harsh for your travel insurer to decline a claim on those grounds, how much of the trip would have been in the area directly affected by the hurricane?

Argonauts

All the gulf was in the area 
the hurricane before didn’t help

sheramber

When did you cancel as hurricane Helene was on 26 September?.
?

Argonauts

I flew oct 7th Monday or should have 
hurricane Milton hit tampa oct 9th

Grumpy_chap

eskbanker said:

it does seem harsh for your travel insurer to decline a claim on those grounds

Doesn't travel insurance normally rely on whatever the Government travel advice is?

sheramber

When did you cancel?

Argonauts

We had checked in online hoping they’d cancel 
we got in checked in then cancelled 

Argonauts

Could have went through and said at last minute not getting on 😳