Reply To: Cancelled flight SYD – LON – Compensation?

[Lady London]

@BigTimeCharley I’d say you were very fortunate and this was an excellent handling, probably by the Australian end as the cancellation was so close to your flight, by BA’s Australian departure handlers.

There are 2 airlines to fly that route on if you have to do it in Economy and one of them is not BA but Singapore Airlines is. So I would say you have had an exceptionally fortunate experience.

If you were very very late landing in London due to the misconnect (over 5 hours) then if you were flying on a flight operated by BA then a compensation claim could be worth looking into depending on the reason for lateness on a flight operated by BA.

But by then you were on a flight operated by SQ which technically is not subject to EU261/its UK copy, unless *departing* Europe/UK. Does not work for non-Eur/non-UK airlines in the other direction.

If one really wanted to spend lots of time and establish legal history and the landing delay was over 5 hours at LHR, and if you were sure the reasons for the delay were not exceptional then I’m guessing you’d have to make some argument such as BA being vicariously liable having cancelled their own flight and subbed you onto SQ… really not worth doing as it would surely end up pushed beyond MCOL/County Court level to a higher Court on an appeal by BA – even if you could win (unlikely).

I would just be grateful that thanks to BA action you ended up flying that route on an excellent airline 🙂 . Lucky you.