Originally Posted by
Final 3 Greens
Hak has a contract with the airline and his fight is cancelled, the airline re-books him, but fails to re-issue his ticket in time to make his new flight. Would this fall under either of the categories of beach of contract or negligence?
If so, given that the airline has either breached contract or been negligent, does Hak have a case for his consequential loss?
although not a lawyer either, I can't see why. The passenger had 2 unrelated bookings. LHR-GVA on the 1st booking and GVA-JFK on the other. No cancellation/delay etc occurred on the 2nd booking whilst the 1st was cancelled. If the passenger wishes to make a voluntary change to the 2nd booking ( such as change origin ) then the rules of that ticket apply.
There was not a EUR2000 cost associated with the cancellation of the LHR-GVA flight but due to voluntarily not taking the GVA-LHR flight
Personally I would have checked to see if there were any other airlines with better fares rather than just paying BA