Reply to: Snowmageddon declared as 5 snowflakes close Terminal 5

[vetran]

Correct.

Feb 2015 I got stuck abroad after bird strike. This year EU ruled that bird strike is an act of god. So no compensation.

Not that I wanted compensation. I just wanted them to send a rescue flight instead of leaving us stranded for days.....

cost us a fortune to arrange that for a few days of peace & quiet but your exes put quite a few quid in!

[BR14]

But you weren't even at the airport yet....

[greenlake]

Feb 2015 I got stuck abroad after bird strike.

But you weren't even at the airport yet....

[NotAllThere]

...Air traffic control have ensured it is the minimum they can get away with

That's right. They feel that if the pressure on them isn't high enough, it just isn't fun. Or this a more reasonable explanation?

This is due to the airports being run by businesses who need to report maximum profits and who know that when things grind to a halt it's the airlines that have to compensate passengers, not the airports.

[NotAllThere]

Snowmageddon declared as 5 snowflakes close Terminal 5

Students protesting again?

[MrMarkyMark]

There will be very few delayed flights into the UK after Korbyn gets in.

It could change aviation from what we currently know of it.

[WTFH]

Feb 2015 I got stuck abroad after bird strike.

Yes, ever since Corbyn has been running the country the birds have had their own union.

[BrilloPad]

"Weather" would come under "act of god" - the airport would claim it cannot control the weather and so would not have to compensate, at a guess.

Correct.

Feb 2015 I got stuck abroad after bird strike. This year EU ruled that bird strike is an act of god. So no compensation.

Not that I wanted compensation. I just wanted them to send a rescue flight instead of leaving us stranded for days.....

[Lance]

"Weather" would come under "act of god" - the airport would claim it cannot control the weather and so would not have to compensate, at a guess.

not much of a market then. Maybe this is why USA does flying better. I'm sure if an airport over there did that the airline would just use another one.

[WTFH]

One presumes that airports have to compensate airlines to some degree if they can't fly. There must be some service levels.

"Weather" would come under "act of god" - the airport would claim it cannot control the weather and so would not have to compensate, at a guess.

[DimPrawn]

There will be very few delayed flights into the UK after Korbyn gets in.

[Lance]

There's no resilience in the system - all runways are run to full capacity, landing times are as tight as they can be, etc. Any additional runways that might be built in the south east will not solve the problem, as they will also just be used to capacity.
This is due to the airports being run by businesses who need to report maximum profits and who know that when things grind to a halt it's the airlines that have to compensate passengers, not the airports.

http://newairportinsider.com/wp-cont...rports2016.pdf

One presumes that airports have to compensate airlines to some degree if they can't fly. There must be some service levels.
Given that EU rules allow up to 600EUR per passenger for cancelled flights and decent lumps of money for delays I will therefore infer that the airlines would rather pay the passengers than pay the airport more for better service. Or do the airlines insure against that loss?

[WTFH]

There's no resilience in the system - all runways are run to full capacity, landing times are as tight as they can be, etc. Any additional runways that might be built in the south east will not solve the problem, as they will also just be used to capacity.
This is due to the airports being run by businesses who need to report maximum profits and who know that when things grind to a halt it's the airlines that have to compensate passengers, not the airports.

http://newairportinsider.com/wp-cont...rports2016.pdf

[Pondlife]

KLM cancelled both my flights today.

[eek]

london you say, both my flights worked only issue was I didn’t have time to hit the lounge but that was more due to the gate the second plane left from anything else