Originally Posted by
seawolf
I would disagree with that. Threats causing flights to be canceled or delayed in my opinion similar to weather and air traffic. The airline has no control.
Preventing the two items you described is a function of law enforcement.
It is not lack of control that counts in the EU regulations. Like bad weather and material breakdown, these situations are expected to occur once in a while, therefore are not reasons not to compensate the passenger. Agree with the logic or not, the regulations are very passenger centric - and the airlines do all they can to ignore the rules and/or fight them in court.