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SAS Airlines, Cancelled flight outward, Delayed & missed connection return

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edited 27 October at 12:12AM in Flight delay compensation
after advice here please

last week whilst on a return trip from Manchester to Frankfurt (via Copenhagen) with SAS Airlines.

on the outward flight, the original flight from Copenhagen to Frankfurt (Tues.21.Oct.25 @ 18:15 hours) was cancelled. No sooner did we find out about this and we got transferred to another fight within 5 minutes.

We got moved onto another flight @ 19:10 hours via Lufthansa.
*are scheduled time of arrival at Frankfurt was 19:45
we eventually arrived at Frankfurt @ 21:16 hours 

*Are we entitled to EU261 compensation here or not

Now on the return trip from (Thursday.23.Oct.25)

Frankfurt to Copenhagen, the pilot informed all passengers their was an engine issue which resulted in a 90 minute delay in take off.
which in turn meant we missed our connection back to Manchester (17:35 hours)

as a result we got transferred to the same flight the following day.
SAS Airlines, provided us with an overnight hotel stay (with breakfast), 2 x vouchers for taxi to and from airport and a voucher for 200 Danish Kroner to spend at the airport.

*Are we entitled to EU261 compensation for this missed connection.

Thanks in advance

**on another note another group of 4 that got transferred to the same flight
they had tickets issued, but no seats, as such they were unable to board the flight.
yet we left with at least 4 empty seats that i could count.

they got transferred to a later flight that evening and somehow got back to Manchester nearly 4 hours later than planned
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