| Europe 1 USA 0 12:33 - Jul 8 with 984 views | Illinoisblue |
Mrs Illy and oldest daughter are on a trip to Italy. Flight out from Atlanta to Rome got canceled due to severe thunderstorms. Because the issue was weather, the airline (Delta) are under no obligation to pay for a hotel. $300 hotel stay, $70 Uber and about 15 hours later they make it out.
Heading home today, from Naples, and flight is canceled. Again due to weather - too windy apparently - but this time because of EU regulation 261, Delta are paying for hotel and providing food vouchers and a shuttle bus to get back to the airport.
Thank you, Europe, for being decent and civilized and not money-grabbing bastards. |  |
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| Europe 1 USA 0 on 12:35 - Jul 8 with 925 views | SimonBatfordITFC |
Brexit Britain: “Hold my beer!” |  | | |
| Europe 1 USA 0 on 14:21 - Jul 8 with 675 views | Pendejo |
ICE gonna get you on arrival home for "hurty words"
The erosion of free speech referring to elsewhere, but part of the maga mantra in USA (down to limited knowledge acquired via X which is definitely not entirely populated by the green crayon brigade, with me as their brigadier) |  |
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| Europe 1 USA 0 on 14:45 - Jul 8 with 629 views | mellowblue |
| Europe 1 USA 0 on 12:35 - Jul 8 by SimonBatfordITFC |
Brexit Britain: “Hold my beer!” |
EU 261 is fully written into UK law. Brexit not an issue. | | | |
| Europe 1 USA 0 on 15:12 - Jul 8 with 570 views | Sarge |
Very thankful for EC/UK 261. Got stuck in NYC last year when the dogsh1t airline I was flying with, which rhymes with Borse Batlantic, cancelled the flight home a few hours beforehand and, having no codeshares, the next flight was 36 hours later.
Got a full refund though had to ask the CAA to step in to force payment because the aforementioned dogsh1t airline don’t respond to customers and have no contact details. | | | |
| Europe 1 USA 0 on 15:46 - Jul 8 with 500 views | hype313 |
American aviation is a joke.
Although I was in Dallas once waiting for a flight to Calgary, and a notice came up asking if anyone would take the next flight (about 5 hours) and get $200 compensation, they oversubscribe all the flights, another few announcements went up and still no one came forward, it ended up at $1200 when I said, I'll do it (Had nothing really waiting for me in Calgary bar a hotel) and it ended up paying for my trip. |  |
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| Europe 1 USA 0 on 17:20 - Jul 8 with 383 views | Illinoisblue |
| Europe 1 USA 0 on 15:46 - Jul 8 by hype313 |
American aviation is a joke.
Although I was in Dallas once waiting for a flight to Calgary, and a notice came up asking if anyone would take the next flight (about 5 hours) and get $200 compensation, they oversubscribe all the flights, another few announcements went up and still no one came forward, it ended up at $1200 when I said, I'll do it (Had nothing really waiting for me in Calgary bar a hotel) and it ended up paying for my trip. |
The economics of oversold flights fascinate me. Airlines always justify it with claims that significant number of people never show for their flights so they oversell just in case. (Who are all these people not turning up for their flights?). I’ve only been “lucky” enough once to have the flexibility to cash in on their compo. It was $400 in travel vouchers back then. Think now it’s either cash or a range of gift cards, which is more appealing. | |
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| Europe 1 USA 0 on 17:29 - Jul 8 with 355 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Europe 1 USA 0 on 14:45 - Jul 8 by mellowblue |
EU 261 is fully written into UK law. Brexit not an issue. |
Yep, thankfully (a) they massively underestimated the amount of work needed, and (b) there was cross-party MP and Lords' opposition to Moggies utterly ridiculous and irresponsible retained EU law bill which would have seen thousands of laws expunged with no assessment of the impacts. |  |
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