Globaliser

It may have escaped you but the forum isn't intended as an opportunity for mootiny or for people to showcase their university debating skills. I have absolutely no interest whatsover wading through your legal opinion about my post or the regulation - it's simply totally irrelevant and pointless to the thread.

The thread is about a PAX who was downgraded on a long-distance BA flight. Downgrading isn't that common AFAIK but where it does happen many that are effected are on long-haul flights. The part of the rule that effects him and others is punitive to the airline and seems intended to make the commercial decision to overbook less attractive. It is a small number of words, but effects many of the people so effected.

You seem to be focussed much more generally on the number of words in the regulation that are punitive and the number of words that are not - and you seem to have almost taken a mathematical conclusion by taking one number away from the other and concluded that the regulation isn't punitive.

For an airline overbooking customers on long-haul and downgrading them - it seems to me that it is.

As I seem to be merely repeating myself, in the interests of soft-ink and the preservation of sanity I will simply duck out of the bit of the debate you are pursuing.

Today I have mostly been eating Lasagne.