Kobe
10-13-2012, 07:23 PM
So we had a 3hour delay When i was flying from Warsaw > Frankfurt and I missed my second flight, I had to send a night in Frankfurt and go 2 Amsterdam the following morning to catch a flight to Calgary.
I was talking to a german at the airport and he said there by law the airplane company is forced to pay you compensation (in the EU) if you miss a flight and it is not your fault.
I'm trying to find this online but I can't really find any info on this, has anyone had this issue? I heard it's pretty recent.
I also had an extra 15e paid for a seat, and on my flight to Calgary this time I only got whatever seat since the flight was overbooked..
Edit: I just found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_261/2004#Compensation_and_assistance
Compensation and assistance
There are three broad categories of compensation and assistance that may be required in the case of cancellations or denied boarding.
[edit]Cash compensation
Cash compensation is a payment of:
€250/400/600 for flights type 1/2/3 (see notes).
Where rerouting is offered and results in the passenger arriving within two/three/four hours of the scheduled arrival time for a type 1/2/3 flight, the compensation payable is halved.
This payment is strictly a compensation for the customer's inconvenience and does not replace or form a part of either of the following two compensation categories.
Although the wording of the regulation indicates that this payment is not relevant in the case of delays, the judgment of the European Court of Justice in joined cases C‑402/07 and C‑432/07, from 2007, suggests that the regulation must be interpreted as meaning that passengers whose flights are delayed may be treated, for the purposes of the application of the right to compensation, as passengers whose flights are cancelled and they may thus rely on the right to compensation laid down in Article 7 of the regulation where they suffer, on account of a flight delay, a loss of time equal to or in excess of three hours, that is, where they reach their final destination three hours or more after the arrival time originally scheduled by the air carrier. The case is now considered to be closed[2], although the right to compensation is not enforceable in the United Kingdom due to a High Court reference back to the ECJ, pending which all cases would be stayed.
The Airline is not obliged to provide Cash compensation in the case of "Extraordinary Circumstances" (Defined earlier in the document), according to Article 5, Paragraph 3.
Edit: Tricky situation here, There was flights boarding before us, and if if we were one of those flights I would have caught the second flight..
It says I should be getting 600e for my compensation.
I talked to condor airlines and Luthansa when I missed my flight and they told me 2 talk 2 LOT since they were the 1st flight I went with, but it was condor that booked the ticket for me so they are responsible.
I was talking to a german at the airport and he said there by law the airplane company is forced to pay you compensation (in the EU) if you miss a flight and it is not your fault.
I'm trying to find this online but I can't really find any info on this, has anyone had this issue? I heard it's pretty recent.
I also had an extra 15e paid for a seat, and on my flight to Calgary this time I only got whatever seat since the flight was overbooked..
Edit: I just found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_261/2004#Compensation_and_assistance
Compensation and assistance
There are three broad categories of compensation and assistance that may be required in the case of cancellations or denied boarding.
[edit]Cash compensation
Cash compensation is a payment of:
€250/400/600 for flights type 1/2/3 (see notes).
Where rerouting is offered and results in the passenger arriving within two/three/four hours of the scheduled arrival time for a type 1/2/3 flight, the compensation payable is halved.
This payment is strictly a compensation for the customer's inconvenience and does not replace or form a part of either of the following two compensation categories.
Although the wording of the regulation indicates that this payment is not relevant in the case of delays, the judgment of the European Court of Justice in joined cases C‑402/07 and C‑432/07, from 2007, suggests that the regulation must be interpreted as meaning that passengers whose flights are delayed may be treated, for the purposes of the application of the right to compensation, as passengers whose flights are cancelled and they may thus rely on the right to compensation laid down in Article 7 of the regulation where they suffer, on account of a flight delay, a loss of time equal to or in excess of three hours, that is, where they reach their final destination three hours or more after the arrival time originally scheduled by the air carrier. The case is now considered to be closed[2], although the right to compensation is not enforceable in the United Kingdom due to a High Court reference back to the ECJ, pending which all cases would be stayed.
The Airline is not obliged to provide Cash compensation in the case of "Extraordinary Circumstances" (Defined earlier in the document), according to Article 5, Paragraph 3.
Edit: Tricky situation here, There was flights boarding before us, and if if we were one of those flights I would have caught the second flight..
It says I should be getting 600e for my compensation.
I talked to condor airlines and Luthansa when I missed my flight and they told me 2 talk 2 LOT since they were the 1st flight I went with, but it was condor that booked the ticket for me so they are responsible.