Originally Posted by
Kacee
This was not an involuntary downgrade. It was a voluntary re-route. If you're lucky, there will be a refund of the award price differential (F => J).
Originally Posted by
SK AAR
The delayed flight was ANA, but the pax accepted to fly in C on a direct flight to MUC rather than LH F from PEK; I'm sure that if the OP had insisted on traveling in LH F from PEK this would have been possible - subject to availability and with much longer travel time. The pax accepted the most sensible thing; fly on a direct flight but in lower service class. I'm sorry, but this is not inv. downgrade and no comp. is due.
How was this
voluntary in any way?
The choice was to arrive on-time in a lower class cabin, or arrive late in the purchased (or possibly even a lower class) cabin. I don't know about you, but both of those choices suck, and I wouldn't call them
voluntary at all. If
you were in a similar position, would you choose either of those and be
happy about it (or even be satisfied with it)?
Let's assume that the OP's wife stayed on the delayed NH flight. It would've resulted in a misconnect at PEK, presumably by a day, since there's probably only one daily flight. So, regardless of EC 261 applicability, could she have expected (or been entitled to) any sort of delay/downgrade/accommodation compensation then?
If so, why
isn't she due downgrade compensation, just because she wanted to arrive on schedule when it couldn't be delivered in the purchased class?
Am I making any sense?
