Originally Posted by
apacuk
You might find the CAA's letter to Ryanair interesting.
https://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/...r%20270917.pdf
It specifically states that re-routing includes other airlines. In this case, other airlines means not Ryanair. I understand BA sometimes claim they can only re-route on BA or BA partner airlines, and the Regs themselves are silent on this.
This clarification from the CAA could be helpful.
This is indeed a useful intervention by the CAA and will make things a little more difficult for the airlines to argue against rerouting via other carriers in the future.
Its interesting that that for years the CAA has had relatively little interest in assisting with EU261 and didn’t intervene in a similar manner despite months of BA strikes / disruption etc., yet choose to get involved when it’s FR at fault.