Your entitlements in case of flight delay, cancellation etc.

One of the members (Mark) on the Majorca Forum was replying to Hayzer and his 12 hour delay. He posted this which I think is brilliant:

"Thomsons don't have a leg to stand on. You are due €400 each. Technical issues are not extraordinary circumstances that let them off the hook.

This is the Regulation EU261/2004.

You are pretty close to going up into the next bracket for payment, based on the distance, I make ABZ - TFS 3428 km and the threshold is 3500

To initiate, you write to Thomsons at the Wigmore house address, and HERE is a template letter for you to use.

You may well get denied at first, they'll use the 'extraordinary circumstances' excuse, - it fobs well over 80% of people off, but there is a court of appeal case to be heard in May which will clarify things. Based on a ruling by Judge Platts in a case known as 'Huzar'.
Text of judgement Here.

There's more stuff if you want but that'll give you the jist of things.

Ticket prices will rise though if they get loads of claims, no winners really.    
Think Thomson treated them quite well really, to be fair..........

That documentary on how Ryanair makes its money said that it costs Ryanair 12 or 13 cent to cover for 100% of the claims like these and seeing that only 20% claim, they are creaming it when they charge 2 euro per head per flight to cover their arses against this.

I've just changed this into a Sticky so it doesn´t get lost. - Great info D

Good idea, thanks Gypsy ( and Mark on MF )

watched the sheriffs on BBC1,always at EASYJET luton to get the money fro passengers ..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dy6ds

I used to use Luton a lot but Wizzair have taken over there. Suntans on the desk and queues of Eastern Europeans, nice. Polish Ambassador to England was on tele last night, claimed Poland wasnt in Eastern Europe. Feck off you twat.  

its only been eastern europe since 1945 ....for the 1000 years before that it was CENTRAL EUROPE
like the NORTH SEA was known as the GERMAN SEA in England for 1000 years
dont worry when you put your X for ´´leave the EU ´´ in 2016 all those young fit tax paying workmen will be replaced with 2,000,000 elderly British pensioners with money in their pockets buying up houses at least they can watch TV ...

So its been Eastern Europe for 69 years then. I will send him a message..........

not if you still using the Julian calender ,its still 1763 where you are ....