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B747-437B
Again, I stress that this is not an argument I have ever seen advanced to a passenger but rather on an airline to NEB level. The airline line to a passenger would simply be that the flight was "delayed not cancelled".
So what can a passenger do in order to claim compensation on the spot? Refuse rebooking until compensation is paid? Or request some sort of written documentation that the flight was indeed canceled and passenger has to be rebooked on another flight? Will that work?