Originally Posted by
Gnopps
This is where it gets tricky. The regulation doesn't specify wether rerouting applies to all airlines or own airline only and afaik this hasn't been decided in a higher court (?). If it applies to all airlines then surely the regulation doesn't care about interline agreements - it is up to the airline to take care of the practicalities anyway. If it does not apply to all airlines then it doesn't matter.
Spoken like an airline attorney!!!!
Let me put it this way:
Airline A serves route XXX-YYY once a week.
Airline B serves route XXX-YYY 5 times a day.
Airline A has to cancel its flight at the last minute, and does not plan to substitute any other flight to operate in its place - so that it will be a full week before their next flight on this route. They also have no other flights from airport XXX until this flight operates again in a week's time.
You surely don't mean that airline A is within its rights to force pax to wait another week until the next flight operated by Airline A, rather than use any of the 30-odd flights operated by its competitor in the meantime?
