Originally Posted by
irishguy28
Or you can have a flight cancelled, ask for a refund, and that's the end of it! To be due for delayed arrival compensation, you must NOT accept a refund and must NOT rebook yourself, but travel on the airline's re-issued ticket.
The refund option doesn't preclude other forms of comp, certainly not by how I read the regs (nor Ryanair's since they refunded me and mailed a me a check for ~$280).
A note to US-based folks: there's apparently no need to provide any bank acct info (SWIFT or otherwise) since they'll just mail you a check from Dublin (in USD currency drawn on a US bank).