Originally Posted by
PAXboy
I was very cross with the EU for forcing hotac compensation on the LCCs..... There is no doubt in my mind that this change was engineered by the 'old lags'.
I don't think so. The centre of this was some high profile completely unacceptable practices by, yes you guessed it, Ryanair, who on a number of occasions cancelled flights which were once-daily services and just told pax the next flight there were seats on was some days later. On one occasion it was an Italy to UK flight with a large number of UK travellers returning home and Ryanair said the next flight with seats available was 11 days later. Or you could have your £25 fare back but only after applying to Dublin for it. This left pax stranded in airports across Europe and was quite unacceptable, hence the regulation.