Reply To: Downgrade compensation query

[Simonm]

ChrisC wrote:

The reimbursement for the downgraded sector (because that’s what the regulation says you get) is 30% of the cost of the DUB-LHR sector which won’t be very much at all.

Surely any compensation for the short notice of the cancellation will depend on whether your arrival in DFW is changed at all as that is the measure for any delay and not at any intermediate point.

Yes that was what I was presuming I would get – the 30% of that leg.

@LadyLondon thank you and interesting re cancellation compensation. The way I read the rules for cancellations within seven days was compensation was only paid if the flight left more than an hour early AND it arrived more than two hours late which I did think was a bit confusing and not likely to apply!

If it is actually the airline’s only exempt if the new flight time is less than an hour earlier AND arrival is not more than two hours afterwards it would seem I would have a claim.