Originally Posted by
HIDDY
All of the confusion as to whether extraordinary circumstances applied or not could easily be rectified if the EU hadn't added the silly clause in the first place.
Removing it altogether and slashing the compensation levels would make it easier for everyone.
Not sure about that. It was a recgonition that some cancellations were being made purely for commercial reasons - e.g. light load - rather than technical and that passengers needed to be compensated for it. (Or the airline fined by Government who would then keep the fines like they do for other regulatory breaches.)
The main problem now with the regulation have been the court decision(s) that it also applied to delays which wasn't part of the original regulation (other than duty of care). In the duty of care section there is no mention of 'extra ordinary circumstances'
If it was just cancellations then there would have been a lot less pushback by them on what are and are not extraordinary because the number of cancellations is relativly small compared to the number of excessive delays.