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What are our rights regarding unscheduled overnight stop Cancun to Gatwick
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TELLIT01 said:Voyager2002 said:The question of compensation is perhaps more promising. If the two trouble-makers were indeed obviously drunk at the beginning of the journey they should not have been allowed to board, and so one could argue that the entire misadventure was therefore TUI's fault.I hate football and do wish people wouldn't keep talking about it like it's the most important thing in the world0
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interstellaflyer said:TELLIT01 said:Voyager2002 said:The question of compensation is perhaps more promising. If the two trouble-makers were indeed obviously drunk at the beginning of the journey they should not have been allowed to board, and so one could argue that the entire misadventure was therefore TUI's fault.
The case for UK261 compensation rests on whether it can be demonstrated that the airline failed to comply with its published policy on knowingly allowing passengers to board when intoxicated - clearly an airline has plenty to lose by doing so, so it'll take rather more than some chatter between passengers (who'd clearly have a vested interest in colluding) to prove that the airline knew (or reasonably should have known) that the relevant passengers were incapacitated at the time of boarding....1 -
interstellaflyer said:the plane did not divert due to passenger/passengers smoking or fighting, the plane diverted because a male physically assaulted a female, leaving her with visable injuries.0
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interstellaflyer said:TELLIT01 said:Voyager2002 said:The question of compensation is perhaps more promising. If the two trouble-makers were indeed obviously drunk at the beginning of the journey they should not have been allowed to board, and so one could argue that the entire misadventure was therefore TUI's fault.
The problem with alcohol is the onset time. In principle someone could do 10 shots back to back and 10 minutes later appear fairly sober but an hour later be drunk. Someone else could have 3 pints over 2 hours and likely appear at the same level of inebriation but an hour later will be less intoxicated.
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You have absolutely no way of proving they shouldnt have accepted the passengers, I really would give this one up.1
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