Originally Posted by
SK AAR
You have no right to request to rebooked OAL /to Ryanair if your flight is retimed 3 weeks out and you are offered a departure 6 hours earlier. If that is inconvenient to you that is your problem. Accept the refund and book with FR despite the higher costs, Vueling is not going to do that for you.
Thanks for your answer. What is that assertion based on, when the EU directive states the opposite?
Just for clarification: Both segments of our flight were affected differently:
- The first was one canceled (that's the one, where the Ryanair alternative exists).and where the provider suggests a flight via another routing, leaving 6 hours earlier. I did in the meantime book the Ryanair flight to avoid the cost to go up even further, as the flight departure appraoches.
- The second one has been retimed to 6h30 earlier, while maintaining the original flight number. There, we didn't receive an email (3 weeks earlier), but found out about it, when I was debating the first segment's rebooking. We are still considering, whether to take that flight, as there no realistic other options exist on the same day.