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Old Nov 1, 2018 | 11:07 am
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Originally Posted by windowontheAside
I'm confused by your post. You mention 'just short of the 3 hour EC261 threshold' yet the flight time has changed just one hour.

I guess you missed the recent news where Morocco announced they were scrapping winter time and clocks would remain permanently on summer time (with just 4 days notice). So it seems the flight has been retimed to allow for the clocks not changing as expected.
And never mind the one hour: If there was ever something that qualified as "extraordinary circumstances which could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken", this must surely be it.
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