Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
There's a bit of an answer in Q3 in post 3 above and in the Regulations Article 7.1, though it doesn't fully answer your question. My interpretation is that your final delay point was VCE, your journey started in NCL, so it's NCL-VCE that counts, which is 900 miles which is 1448 kms. I don't think you can argue in this situation that going via London made it more than 1500 kms since BA presumably had the option of routing you another route under 1500 kms and you'd still potentially get to VCE at the same time.
Thanks for the reply CWS! This aspect of the regulation does seem to be a bit murky. During my research I found at least one 'claims company' that says on their site that distance is calculated as the combined distance of all legs, but without citing any source to give such a claim legs, I think its meaningless.
We'll just take what's been offered I think, I just wanted to be sure we weren't being short changed.