If any of you belong to any airlines' frequent flyer schemes, I would suggest you start thinking about using your mileage this year.
My prediction is that the "mileage award ticket" will be one of the first casualties of this "compensation culture" (except journeys outside the EU where compensation rights are exempt).
I really cannot see airlines accepting rulings that a free ticket-holder receives compensation when they haven't actually paid anything - that's plainly not fair and the airlines are not making sufficient profits to cover such claims! (Indeed, the big 5 US carriers are all losing money hand over fist every day and this piece of legislation may well hasten the demise of one or two!