Supreme Court refuses Jet2 and Thomson leave to appeal

[mikehammer]

Surely the regionals flying multiple sectors per day will have to become trigger happy with the cancellation gun in the event of bad weather to save the rest of the day's schedule?

[barry lloyd]

...as BA regularly do with their domestic and short-haul European programme whenever there's a weather-related or operational problem outside their sphere of influence.

[scr1]

that would cause a lot of trouble for flts to the islands if they were to just canx flats. A lot of the pax are people going to hospital appointments. Or prisoner's along with the judge and lawyers going for a trial or going back to start their sentence

[ExXB]

The EU law of unforeseen consequences, everyone is screwed.

[PAXboy]

Politicians do this all the time. They want to 'fix' something and don't spend the time to look ahead by 5/10 years. There are a number of things that cme to mind where British politicos wanted a bit of quick publicity and by the time the arrives - they are in another ministry or on the golf course.

[tgon]

Quite rightly any form of transport should be exempt from events that cause delays or cancellations outside of their control. The grey area seems to be what is inside their influence to control, such as 3rd party maintenance operations. Even with the ruling I’m still not convinced the greyness is put to bed. However, rail, road and sea transport seem more established in their compensation policies for similar causes.

My current claim against an airline is based on an operational decision taken within 12 hours of the scheduled flight which subsequently denied me from boarding. However, the noise of the recent court cases and the airline response has unfairly buried my claim in with the rest, made quite legitimately and for non-technical reasons.

[LadyL2013]

I dunno. On one hand I think a minor delay or a knock on delay seems a bit petty to claim for. **** happens as has been said. But I can fully understand claiming when you end up losing days of a holiday which you have paid for.

[Smudger]

Cockney Steve

Please name the operators you consider to be "shadier" .

[S.o.S.]

Cockney Steve Please don't.

Everyone does know that they are responsible for their statements and accusations, as they ticked that box when signing up to be able to post. Do not make allegations that you are not prepared to stand up in court to defend.

[ExXB]

CS, I've just reread your post. I'll leave the discussion on shady operators but would like to comment on your suggestion that "all" the airlines have to do is to put up their fares.

If only it was that easy. The price a passenger pays today is an amount that the airline believes is the maximum amount that customer is willing to pay, including all government/airport fees and charges. If an airline thought it would get away with charging more, they would have already done so. The dirty secret of airline pricing is that fares are not a cost-plus calculation! They can't be.

Adding another cost will not affect the price travellers are willing to pay, it just means that the airline's costs increase, which must be paid out of their share of the total revenues.

[IB4138]

I think you will find that several airlines have already been factoring in a charge, in the small print, to cover delay payouts.

Additionally an industry source estimates that if fares were to rise as a result of this ruling, it would be by no more than €3 per sector.