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Old Mar 13, 2013 | 1:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Kgmm77
There seems to be a good mix or carrot and stick for the airlines in the proposals, focusing more on major delays rather than relatively minor inconvenience-like delays.

I would also like to see the onus being put on airlines to pro-actively compensate, rather than hoping they can wear people down by avoiding, evading & frustrating.
I think the additional clarity will accomplish that. The debate about causes would have gone and so the introduction of a more automated payment process I would have thought been an almost inevitable part of minimising cost.
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