Originally Posted by
crimson12
Yes, they did put me up in a hotel and covered meals, so that was okay. But my understanding is that the entitlement to compensation is in addition to that? In other words I would get the 600
and meals, etc.? Is that not the case?
I don't want to cross post so I've got a different post in TravelBuzz about the compensation question (here
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-question.html)
You are entitled both to the Right to Care (meals and accommodation) and the compensation to which you allude. This would be 600 euros x 3 as I understand there were 3 passengers on your booking ref.
The entitlement to flight delay compensation arose following the Wallentin Hermann judgement. Summary here (
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/legal_servic.../07c549_en.pdf)
You will need to be pretty determined to obtain the compensation as airlines do not make it easy and will usually cite the 'extraordinary circumstances' defence.