Won (Judgement by Default) - What to do next?

jonesMUFCforever

By now he must have 'paid' out a lot more in court and bailiff fees than what he has 'won' not withstanding how many man hours he has spent on this.

blindman

taless wrote: »

I only understood about the 'one-ticket' issue after the incident, not before.

Irrelevant, still doesn't entitle you to the money back

Me and a few others has destinations that are not served by Etihad. The officer there looks very helpful - he helped us to book our flights to our destinations to ensure that the seats are reserved when we reach Kuala Lumpur, asked us to pay for the tickets first, and told us to e-mail Etihad Guest Affairs to get our compensation. The other officer then offered us a voucher such that we could go to a hotel to call whatever hotels or friends or families that we will be arriving late.

At least they helped you to your destination, other airlines would have left you to fend for yourself.

I initially asked for the officer to give me a written promise that a compensation will be given, but he just reassured me and said not to worry, just e-mail and it will be fine. As both of the officers looked helpful and genuine, I did not insisted on the written promise (I know I am foolish on this part).

Possibly foolish but even so Etihad still are not liable so wouldn't have paid.

Admittedly I did not read the Conditions of Carriage before the flight. But even if I have read the C&Cs, with the 2 officers giving these reassurances and being so helpful, will I not believe their words 'have precedence' over the C&Cs?

No

The delay was also very unreasonable in my opinion - due to 'too many' passengers on board??? Why is it for such an administrative error by the airline, the passenger has to be faulted?

Airlines regularly overbook cabins in order to maximise revenues. True, it is unusual for more passengers to actually get on the flight than it can hold (check in desk or gate personnel should have spotted that!)
However it is not unreasonable

About the travel insurance - if you could find any travel insurance that offers compensation for the flight misconnection itself (not just to pay hotel and accommodation bills), do let me know, I will be very interested to know for future travel.

Anyone who travels internationally (or even domestically) without Travel Insurance is an idiot
I suggest YOU look for travel insurance.

I understand many of you may feel I may be overly persistent, but please remember I am a victim here.

Of your own making....

I understand I am rather naive in a few things

Yes and you are ignoring all the sound advice given

or robbing some company using the law.

IMHO you are trying to rob Etihad as they were not responsible for your onward travel. The delay was reasonable if unfortunate for you.

I could not help but feel utterly deceived by what I was told at Abu Dhabi and what is happening at the moment.

From the helpfulness of the guys at Abu Dhabi I would guess they were not trying to deceive you. Obviously they gave the wrong info. Move on it happens.

Did you read my last comments?

You are wasting yours and everyone's time.
I can see why Etihad do not respond to your emails.:rolleyes:

My advice-which you will ignore of course -:D

Give it up, move on and learn from the experience.

Finally
Answer my question please as I have answered yours

Out of interest
:How much was the fare on the trip?
London Heathrow to Malaysia + the Low Cost Carrier Airline from Kuala Lumpur to ??

as your statement

:
but feel absolutely disappointed that £105 just got into the bin like that - I'm a student and this money is hard to come by

stamina_josh

If you google it, you will see the same thing happened to some people a while back. I cannot remember the airline, but they didn't turn up at court. The baillifs got sent in, and got the money. The judge awarded the full amount for each person.

chuckles1066

stamina_josh wrote: »

If you google it, you will see the same thing happened to some people a while back. I cannot remember the airline, but they didn't turn up at court. The baillifs got sent in, and got the money. The judge awarded the full amount for each person.

Google what?

"some people"? + "some airline"?

If the Registered Address has only equipment that's been leased (usually from a parent company within the same group, it's all very carefully planned) then there's nothing for the bailiffs to seize and the Plaintiff has !!!!!! his money up against the wall.

Now repeat that back to me, I want to be sure that you understood.

Quentin

The answer for the op.

You can ask the court to issue a warrant of execution. On issue this will be passed to the bailiff to try and get your money.

The cost of applying to the warrant will be £35 (assuming the judgement is for less than £125.)

You pay the £35, it is non refundable from the court, but will be added to the amount the bailiff tries to collect for you. (ie if the Bailiff is successful, then you will get the £35 back).

If the bailiff is unsuccessful you will have thrown another £35 away.

This answers your original query.

(The Defendant may not want to have this CCJ registered against them as it may affect their credit rating in this country - so there is a chance they will pay up)

taless

Thought I'd update on this matter. They have paid up and the matter is settled.

I did not send in the bailiffs, but sent an e-mail to them regarding the judgement.

They replied after 2 weeks saying "I can confirm that this matter has been forwarded to our legal department and settlement by way of chq for the default amount of £137.25 is being sent to you".


I've received the cheque on Monday and it has now cleared.

jonesMUFCforever

Hallelujah!

ukjoel

To be honest the fact they did not respond to original court docs was probably incompetence and nowone caring. Whats a few hundred quid?

Only reason it got sent to legal second time round was you chased it.

I think lots of companies cant be botherered or are too lazy to fight claims for sub £300 and if people put there money where there mouth is and go to small claims they invariably win as a result of no show/response to the claim which may have some level of merit.

Am sure there are people making a career out of it taking 20-30 companies to court a week over some trivial matter.

djohn2002uk

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

Hallelujah!

Not a surprising sarcastic reply in the circumstances.
That's the second time the OP disregarded your very forceful advice successfully.
Might be a moral there somewhere.

jonesMUFCforever

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Not a surprising sarcastic reply in the circumstances.
That's the second time the OP disregarded your very forceful advice successfully.
Might be a moral there somewhere.

Thank you for your opinion.
In man hour terms OP has spent 'thousands of pounds' for very little return.