Originally Posted by
MaxiStoat
FRA for example - they provide no service at all until daily service restarts at the end of next month. Meanwhile LH operates 4-6 times daily.
If you're on, say, one of the flights operating week beginning 23rd August and they wipe that week from the schedule too, what happens? Is there a difference in entitlement depending on how far out they do it?
Yes, the cancellation is after 2 weeks then probably BA will be on the hook for EC261 compensation for a late cancellation. BA have done short term cancels, but that 2 week timeline seems to drive cancellations before that point. If they cancel the night before travel then they will rebook on Lufthansa anyway. When the cancellation happens - if it happens - then the specifics matter. So for example if there is an Iberia, Vueling or Finnair option that works for you then BA should be able to rebook you on to that. If you are OK to stay in a hotel until the next day's service then that is another option. What has happened in the past is that if the serrvice is 2 days off, people staying n hotels in the LHR area find that BA staff in LHR will rebook on to other airlines to shorten the hotel stay. You also have the (slightly) risky option of rebooking yourself on to Lufthansa or a low cost carrier and then pinging BA for any additional cost - we know BA are paying up rather than seeing CEDR or MCOL cases running up (most of the legal department is furloughed....).