Originally Posted by
KARFA
could you point to the court rulings and where it says that in EC261 please?
EDIT: just to add I only ask since I have retiming of my own come through today of about 3hrs too and a refund would be preferable
Somehow I don't think a voucher would go to waste in your case.
Just read
this article on MSE about this very subject, and it seems that it's up to the airline what is a significant change.
My mild understanding of contract / consumer law is you are bound by / agree to the T&Cs / CoC in force when you've booked as long as they are not deemed unfair. They shouldn't be able to move the goalposts in their favour beyond that.
FWIW I had a flight re-timed 1:50 earlier some time ago & a couple of weeks back some 48 hours out I rang the gold line and asked them if a free change was possible onto another flight 20 minutes later than time of the original flight. They obliged. { The latter flight was more expensive to change to online. }