Originally Posted by
bernardh
If I intended to use MCOL, I would send a letter before action in the hope that this would bring things to a head. All I am asking here is whether there is any similar protocol with CEDR, or whether I can send a letter before action without specifying whether I intend to use CEDR or MCOL.
I can't see it working. The flight will operate, you don't have the necessary qualifications to enter the USA, that is the passenger's responsibility but BA have offered two remedies. When you originally booked there was a pandemic on, so it was a "maybe" booking from day1, and I said so at the time. EC261 doesn't give you a remedy. The CRA - which I think is beyond the scope of CEDR but not MCOL - would presumably be based on some interpretation of an unbalanced contract - you not having the flexibility that BA has on its side, and/or BA offered a deal which in one big market - but not all markets - was destined to be very difficult to use.
For CEDR you do need either BA to sign off the complaint to them, or for 8 weeks to elapse from your first date of complaint.