Originally Posted by
Often1
1. Of course it is a valid contract. It specifies liquidated damages, e.g. a 30% refund if TP can't perform as agreed. Moreover, downgrades are expressly contemplated by EU law as the 30% refund referred to above happens to be included in the TP contract, but even if it were not, is clearly covered by EC 261/2004. You should review that before making your assertion about the issue.
You may be right. I'll check.
3. You were not delayed at YYZ by more than 4 hours unless that flight was also delayed. As you were, by your reporting, connecting, it is you arrival time at YYZ that matters. In any event, that is simply icing on the cake as you made a voluntary change to your ticket which TP was decent enough to do when it could simply have handed your wide a Y boarding pass and told her that she could board or lose her ticket at her option. There is no rebooking right under downgrades.
We were delayed both at YYZ and at our final destination by more than six hours.