Originally Posted by
Greenpen
I remember reading a novel about the collapse of society because courts began awarding damages to the person who suffered, then their children, unborn grandchildren and similarly, unborn great grandchildren, thus bankrupting everybody.
I am disappointed that this thread has moved in that direction with the arguments about BA’s compensation liability for this problem.
I think it should be closed.
People incurred extra costs due to some airlines using unreliable software so it's natural that they're asking whether they can have these costs compensated. If there's an ATC restriction, the compensation situation is very clear, but in instances where on the same route one airline manages to operate a normal service and other doesn't, it's absolutely appropriate to ask whether the latter airline couldn't have prevented the issue.