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Old Jan 16, 2018, 3:07 am
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Originally Posted by Janusian
My reading of the regs are that I am entitled to compensation of €250 as I arrived over 2 hours late and my original flight was cancelled. It seems a bit odd that if the original flight had taken off and I had arrived at the same time I would not have been due any compensation (as delayed flights have to be 3 hours late) but it does seem to be the regs.

Am I missing anything here?
Only the law of unintended consequences. The entitlement to compensation for a pure delay is not actually in the Regulation, and the oddity (along with lots of other oddities in the way that the Regulation now works) arises because of the way that the Regulation was "interpreted" to create that entitlement.
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