Here's the BBC link to this news story - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2356197.stm - the comments of on-line readers is the most interesting in all this...& yes one of the many is mine.

The point I was making is that with so many ticket rates how can fixed compensation rates be fair when someone could make multiple times their ticket cost, whilst others only get a low % of their outlay back

[This message has been edited by DP-UK (edited 10-25-2002).]