Originally Posted by
Cymro
The court sets precedent.
It's not commercially unreasonable for the airlines not to want a Supreme Court precedent and to settle those that are persistent while brushing away all the others based on their own interpretation: if the claim is successful, the existence of this precedent will embolden claimants.
However, there is a wider public interest issue - almost everyone could be affected by a 261 claim at some point in their lives.
Fully understand that. I am just quite surprised that BA didn't just pay up and remove the possibility of what could well be a pretty bad public outcome for them. I am equally surprised someone has gone to the time and effort of pursuing it this far, right enough, but that's another matter entirely.
I have limited sympathy for them, however. They seem to be quite dishonest in some of their rejections of valid 261 claims.