Originally Posted by
flyingcrooked
Brilliant, thanks.I hadn't realized the UK law mirrored the EU one so closely. In Canada the relevant protection for flyers is pretty weak and folks who fly a lot know it's way better to be on an EU airline, or departing the EU, if there are delays or cancellations. My flights are almost exclusively on Air Canada in and out of the UK, so this is very helpful info.
When the U.K. left the EU, the U.K. Government had all sorts of grand plans to repeal and replace all EU law. Then they realised the scale of what that meant, so all EU legislation existing before Brexit was brought into domestic legislation, with some fixes to deficiencies created by the fact of being outside of the EU (E.g. in this case replacing € figures for compensation with £ figures). Some of it is gradually being replaced, and primacy of case law is gone, but this instrument remains on the statute book.