Originally Posted by
mario
As such, they should be refunded of all out of of pocket expenses and be given 400 EUR compensation each (half if they are arrived within three hours of the original arrival time, that's not clear).
I take it that they travelled on their original onward leg to Rhodes.
However I don't think BA can apply the 50% haircut: the airline has to reroute them, not rely on them rerouting themselves.
When passengers are offered re-routing to their final
destination on an alternative flight pursuant to Article 8, the
arrival time of which does not exceed the scheduled arrival
time of the flight originally booked
..
(b) by three hours, in respect of all intra-Community flights of
more than 1 500 kilometres and for all other flights
between 1 500 and 3 500 kilometres;
..
the operating air carrier may reduce the compensation
provided for in paragraph 1 by 50 %.