Originally Posted by
GUWonder
This is indeed a kind of situation that led to the push for the EU equivalent of a
passenger bill of right that is legally applicable for flights from the relevant European region and for common carriers based in that region regardless of origin and destination of the flights.
+1
Our representatives in Washington are so lame
. Under the current system, there's no incentive not to cancel due to weather; just like until last year there was no incentive not to keep people hostage overnight in an RJ. The 3 hour rule couldn't be done, said the airlines in unison while painting an Armageddon scenario, and look where we're now: hardly anyone is kept hostage anymore and profits are up, way up (not that there's a link, but the "enormous" costs they said the three hour rule would impose on them -- surprise -- were lies.)