Originally Posted by
Tobias-UK
To stop us guessing and information being fed on the drip, what route and date are we talking about?
Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
It's good they have you available to help them, these sorts of situations can get complex. But the simple point is that Right to Care almost certainly exists if it's a European airline, Article 7 will be potentially payable if extraordinary circumstances apply. Now these are general statements but the specifics tend to be important. One aspect that may be relevant here is if another airline is operating parallel services on the day in question, and another is not, then that would perhaps point to something that isn't extraordinary. But even that isn't conclusive, e.g. different equipment may explain different outcomes.
This is an Irma related flight to MCO that I was responding to this post from the OP up thread. (OP has posted a comment in the Irma thread as well)
Originally Posted by
SonTech
Here is a quick question.
Can BA (or any other airline for that matter) still deny EU compensation due to weather if the arrival airport reopens before the planned scheduled departure time and the airline has cancelled the flight already? Also doesn't the airline still have a duty of care re hotel/meal costs even if due to weather?
The airline could have at least waited until the day to cancel if the airport was still closed.
At the time BA cancelled the MCO flight the airport wasn't open but it did subsequently did open and BA didn't reinstate the cancelled flight.