Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
Are the regs deliberately obtuse to confuse Joe Public, or to allow wiggle room for the airlines ?
The right to compensation for a flight that is delayed (rather than cancelled) isn't found in the text of the Regulation, so any criticism of the definition of that right lies elsewhere.
In any event, measuring the length of the delay by arrival time concentrates on the time point that really matters. After all, who cares how long a departure delay is if arrival is on time?
And as a cut-off time point would have to be set by any rule, surely it's not a bad thing that an airline that has had to delay a flight then has an incentive to reduce the duration of the delay?