Originally Posted by
lorcancoyle
it’s iffy if they don’t proactively notify every passenger on the flight of the cancellation and their rights. They can’t take the benefits of the strategy for the F to J downgrade pax and deny WT pax the right to a refund on the basis the flight is still operating. Would be interested to see a sworn witness statement from BA on that aspect...
Airlines may just cancel seats in a particular cabin which will show up as a cancelation in the reservation system. The point is that the cabin is withdrawal/canceled. I don't see why passengers in other cabins should be notified if they are unaffected by the cancelation. Maybe they are but none of them comes here to tell us about it.
Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
I don't see that any court would class it as a genuine cancellation - regardless, if the airline "places a passenger in a class lower than that for which the ticket was purchased" , the passenger is entitled to the reimbursement under EC261 from what I can see - cancellation or not
When the flight is canceled everything revolves around a refund/rebooking. Whether a passenger gets full refund and books a new flight themselves or simply asks to be put into a lower cabin and get the difference back is a technicality. But when a cabin is withdrawan it is a cancelation first and then anything else.
And why would it not be a 'genuine' cancelation? So, if a route is not commercially viable and the airline cancels the whole flight it is 'genuine,' but if only a particular cabin is not commercially viable and an airline decides to cancel only that particular cabin then it is not genuine? It should be one thing or the other.