Reply To: TAP Portugal cancellation

[AJA]

Wow. That is mean of TAP. I suspect they will use the ‘get out of jail free card’ that you accepted their terms of paying your own costs for the extra night when you accepted the flight the next day.

I don’t think EC261 mentions compensation for arriving earlier than scheduled but a move to a flight much earlier on the same day does not seem fair. You bought a ticket for a scheduled flight that evening.

I think you are entitled to compensation but as @meta says getting TAP to pay up will involve the Portuguese courts.

I would have requested being put on another airline the same night before accepting the next day flight.

Have you tried talking to your travel insurance to see if they will pay the extra car parking?

Another thing is if the original flights cost more than £100 per passenger and you paid on a credit card you could have invoked s75 and got the credit card company to pay for alternative flights.