Reply To: Cancelled flight LOT Polish Airlines, refusing rebooking

[PeteM]

JDB wrote:

@hugol0ver – yes enforcement at MCOL can be a problem if you have a recalcitrant defendant. There are various routes to enforcement but they cost money, you can be at risk of costs and there is no guarantee of success. The unsatisfied CCJ’s you are seeing probably relate to default judgments where the airline has just ignored the claim/refused to engage and it’s also possible the claim has been made against the wrong legal entity, so if there were some heavy enforcement action, they might just apply to have the judgment set aside. I have occasionally seen people here musing about seizing aircraft or similar, but that’s for the birds in relation to a small claim.

A really good point and I think people often don’t think through how they are actually going to enforce judgement against an entity that has no presence or assets in the UK. Their aircraft will also mostly be leased and realistically no one will be seizing an aircraft for £1k… MCOL is definitely not the solution to all your problems when it comes to airlines…