Originally Posted by
kuroko
this one in the US but will remember it if it will happen again (hopefully not)out of the EU. is the EC261 compensation for downgrade not only possible if it is short notice? (btw is there somewhere in the web the full EC261?! found nothing despite than the short one's published by LH etc)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conte...lex:32004R0261
You may also need to refer to the various ECJ case law which sets some precedents, such as
Emirates v Schenkel and
Air France v Folkerts .
As
Dave Noble states, for the downgrade compensation there's no notification time that has an impact; what matters is that you turn up for travel and it turns out the airline involuntarily downgrades you to a lower class of cabin.
However, this of course assumes that the flight you are taking is within the scope of the regulation (i.e. departing from the EU on EK!)