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The flight was cancelled less than 48hrs before departure triggering the rebooking onto any airline clause in EU 261.
What most airlines are doing now is large scale changes to schedules more than 14 days in advance so that passengers are obliged to request a refund or take an alternative flight with the airline, precisely so they avoid these mass scale rebookings. That’s the clause of EU261 airlines have cottoned onto in order to save money to not lose cash since the pandemic.
Rebooking under similar transport conditions has nothing to do with the 14 days. That only applies to compensation.
Under EC261, an airline has the same responsibility if they cancel a flight 11 months, 3 months, or 3 days before.
The airline must offer you,
on a one off basis, a choice between:
- the reimbursement of your ticket and, if you have a connecting flight, a return flight to the airport of departure at the earliest opportunity
- re-routing to your final destination at the earliest opportunity or,
- re-routing at a later date at your convenience under comparable transport conditions, subject to the availability of seats.