FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - The BA Compensation Thread: Your guide to Regulation 261/2004
Old Oct 7, 2014 | 1:21 pm
  #1443  
Dave Noble
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
40 Countries Visited
3M
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 46,107
Originally Posted by warakorn
Thanks again corporate-wage-slave for your engagement here.

Where is the crystal-clear segment in the regulation that the distance between the point of origin and point of destination matters?
The argument is not about the final destination (both passenger and BA agree: it is MUC), but the point of origin (BA says LHR, passenger says PHL).
I do not think that it is clear that the distance would be measured back to flights that were not delayed

If travelling MUC-LHR-PHL and the MUC-LHR was delayed , then measuring from MUC-PHL would be corrent since the distance from journey of impacted flight to destination would be the highest distance

For PHL-LHR-MUC with a delay to LHR-MUC, I would think that BA would have a strong argument that the distance from impacted flight to destination is the shortest distance

For practical purpose, is EUR50 really worth worrying about trying to go to court over ?


Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
Well the clause you quoted included stuff about connecting flights, which would not make sense or would be superfluous if the regulations intended LHR to be the start point.
I do not see anything that would suggest measuring back over flights already flown should be done. Connections onwards, yes but nothing that I can see that would refer to completed flights
Dave Noble is offline