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Old Mar 21, 2020, 4:45 am
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warakorn
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Airlines the world over are in a a fight for their lives, and people are demanding compensation for cancellations that are utterly outside the airlines control.
Basically, you are saying we should gift money to Swiss. Swiss does not have to deliver any transportation service (since LX cancelled the flight). And we should be ok with that, because times are so tough.

Let's look back in the last five years. Imagine I am bankcrupt (e.g. have no money to be able to purchase flight tickets), because I had a tough personal life (lost job, lost wife, lost health etc.). But just because I am broke, I am expecting Swiss to gift me a transportation service (flight) for free. I don't think that Swiss has generally allowed sth. like that in the previous years. But it's basically the same principle as explained above - just in reverse direction.
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