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Old Aug 5, 2016 | 1:09 pm
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
The 75% comes from EC261. There's been discussion about whether it's 75% of the entire ticket (unreasonable), 75% based on the fare component or fare in that direction, or 75% of the cost allocated to the segment that was downgraded.
If they generally give a runaround like this thread suggests, then I would think 75% of the entire ticket is not quite that unreasonable.

Hopefully, it wont be as bad as that.
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