Originally Posted by
LondonElite
I didn't say (i) the lowest paying passenger (of whatever class) should be treated differently, but I accept that they possibly are, or (ii) that anyone should be offloaded without further consequences.
What I said, and I believe we are deep in the detail of ticketing here, is that (colloquially) if you end up travelling in the class that you originally paid for (ie your GUF1 is refunded to you), you don't outright deserve 75% of your original fare back. That the legislation works differently to my view is something I learned in the course of this thread - as noted above I've never been downgraded from any fare/ticket construction.
It does not matter how a passenger ended up ticketed in CW. They may have started with an WT fare, then paid cash to upgrade to WTP and then, later on on, paid cash to upgrade to CW. As soon as they are ticketed in CW they are a CW passenger. If the flight is oversold in CW and they are downgraded to WTP or WT it does not mean that they are travelling in the class they 'originally' paid for, it means that they were downgraded.
In this particular case the price of the ticket would be the fare paid + GUF1 + taxes. The paid for cabin is CW not WTP. It does not matter how many transactions and ticket re-issues it took for someone to be a CW passenger but everything paid towards the CW will count towards the price of such ticket for the purpose of compensation.