We booked 2 x return business class flights with BA from Manchester to Cape Town, paid with Avios and a BA 2-4-1 voucher. When passengers are offered re-routing to their final destination on an alternative flight pursuant to Article 8, the So you now have the ridiculous situation in places like Florida, where disabled people are called for early boarding and well over half the flight gets up.

They do however accept that (i) the only available seats on the flight I’d booked were in economy (so a 2 class downgrade) and (ii) I had phoned them several days prior to departure to confirm that we had business class seats, and they had confirmed this was the case. Win-win for BA as they aren’t called out for cancelling the person’s seat. That’s precisely what BA did. But so long as there’s 1 seat next to the toilet in Economy, BA doesn’t have to pay costs of rerouting, doesn’t have to pay duty of care while they wait for a flight that can transport them in thecconditions to those they booked, and BA avoids the risk of having to pay compensation as well. We need a test case where someone challenges this state of affairs as BA would be nuts not to exploit this. I think therefore that you are entitled to compensation per Article 7 based on being denied boarding at LHR for the CPT flight. I think it should be 50% of EUR600 per passenger per the following:As to compensation I’m not sure this applies because (a) the cancellation was caused by DUS not approving the flight plan due to curfew and (b) since you chose not to fly you weren’t actually delayed. You can only change the destination to travel in the next 14 days and if your return flight isn’t cancelled then they won’t change the origin of that one. So might not be so useful for you Cost is of some but not incredible concern. I have Avios so I could take a one-way or even RT award positioning flight(s) if need be. Since GVA has a lot of EZ Jet and other low-cost flights, I'm assuming that GVA is not a prohibitively expensive place to be originating such an itinerary, however. Members can use their Avios to pay for part of the total price of selected holidays* (Flight + Hotel or Flight + Car) when making a non-redemption booking on ba.com for travel on British Airways operated flights and British Airways codeshares with selected partners. They tried to downgrade us, we eventually agreed to rerouting, with a partial downgrade. We got to our destination 2.5hrs late.

They haven’t always won on validity in fact we have at least one report on here where BA comrehensively lost. Should be the case as 261 is a statute so should override any of BA’s ts and cs, and agents poorly instructed by BA so as to deny passengers these statutory rights etc. The above image shows Rolls-Royce Tempest engine TDV3/1 intake Integration testing in TP141 testbed, Bristol. We were only going to Düsseldorf for the weekend and they have only managed to reroute the outbound for Sunday afternoon and we were returning Monday evening anyway so we can’t see the point in going now for this weekend. I haven’t currently accepted this Passengers denied boarding against their will should be able either to cancel their flights, with reimbursement ofI think someone who booked on say the Faro flight that was cancelled at T-355 using Avios and is a teacher so can only go in the school hols and so wants to be rebooked for a weekend in August would stand a good chance in front of a judge, seems pretty reasonable If an insufficient number of volunteers comes forward to allow the remaining passengers with reservations to board the flight, the operating air carrier may then deny boarding to passengers against their will. between the European territory of the Member States and the French overseas departments, and for all other flights