Originally Posted by
HarbourGent
Why claim? Are you out of pocket? It sounds like Cathay have been helpful and if you need specific help you can just ask them at the airport.
If people claim the socialist Euro compensation like this whenever it's due regardless of whether or not they suffered, in the end airlines like Cathay will just raise minimum connection time and everyone will lose.
Because OP did suffer a delay of 14 hours? CX chooses to do business ex-EU knowing they are bound by EU regulations. It is OP's interest to defend his 'property rights', neither CX nor OP are NGO/non profits, maximising personal outcome is the epitome of anti-socialism? And as Cambo wrote, the EU261 is not socialism, as the compensation is directly paid from airlines to pax, without the gov taking and 'redistributing' the money. Perhaps you meant over-regulation? I have no idea what is the implied cost of EU261 that is transferred to passengers in the form of higher fares, which they can not 'opt out' from, and whether they could have done better buying their own travel insurance of price/coverage of their own choosing. I'm not sure if EU261 would cause CX to raise MCT, as in OP's case the next connecting flight is 14 hrs later, would OP have flown CX if that 14 hrs later connection was the only option?