Comments on: It’s been a while: know your travel rights edition http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/ Where randomness is the only certainty. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: quantummoxie http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/#comment-51 quantummoxie Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:55:23 +0000 http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/#comment-51 Dude I wish they had something like that in the US - and I'm a libertarian. Instead corporations are given free reign to screw us in as many ways as possible while our individual liberties are simultaneously stripped away. Dude I wish they had something like that in the US – and I’m a libertarian. Instead corporations are given free reign to screw us in as many ways as possible while our individual liberties are simultaneously stripped away.

]]> By: Joe Fitzsimons http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/#comment-48 Joe Fitzsimons Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:42:29 +0000 http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/#comment-48 Well, I was lucky that my plane was able to take off at all. I made it back to Dublin early on Christmas eve. Had it been canceled, I suspect I'd have been stranded over Christmas. Well, I was lucky that my plane was able to take off at all. I made it back to Dublin early on Christmas eve. Had it been canceled, I suspect I’d have been stranded over Christmas.

]]> By: mick http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/#comment-45 mick Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:03:09 +0000 http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/#comment-45 Yea, it sucks when the delays are weather related. Basically you've got next to no rights in that situation from what I can tell. What's more, I think that a number of the airlines use bad weather as an opportunity to optimize their profits by cancelling flights and packing out others... I was soooo lucky after QEC, if my plane was a little bit later I would have had all sorts of dramas. Yea, it sucks when the delays are weather related. Basically you’ve got next to no rights in that situation from what I can tell.

What’s more, I think that a number of the airlines use bad weather as an opportunity to optimize their profits by cancelling flights and packing out others…

I was soooo lucky after QEC, if my plane was a little bit later I would have had all sorts of dramas.

]]> By: Joe Fitzsimons http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/#comment-44 Joe Fitzsimons Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:51:54 +0000 http://brissietobrizzle.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/its-been-a-while-know-your-travel-rights-edition/#comment-44 I was vaguely aware of this, but it doesn't always help. On my way back from QEC I got stuck in Heathrow airport due to fog. This was the 23rd of December and so the place was packed. The airlines were canceling flights left, right and center, but I was lucky to only be delayed by about 10 hours. Unfortunately the airline didn't tell us anything, and simply pulled away all their staff, so that once you had gone through security there was noone about from whom you could get information, let alone the statement of your statutory rights (which you are entitled to, as numerous signs about the airport tell you). It seems that if the airline really wants to dodge this, they can, since your unlikely going to put in the effort to force them into action. I was vaguely aware of this, but it doesn’t always help. On my way back from QEC I got stuck in Heathrow airport due to fog. This was the 23rd of December and so the place was packed. The airlines were canceling flights left, right and center, but I was lucky to only be delayed by about 10 hours. Unfortunately the airline didn’t tell us anything, and simply pulled away all their staff, so that once you had gone through security there was noone about from whom you could get information, let alone the statement of your statutory rights (which you are entitled to, as numerous signs about the airport tell you). It seems that if the airline really wants to dodge this, they can, since your unlikely going to put in the effort to force them into action.

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