Re:How to avoid getting stuck with the middle seat on a Ryan...
by mrarjen on Monday April 23, 2018 @07:54AM
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That EU261 is great yes, TBH I have earned money on the last 3 flights I have taken thanks to this system. All of those were long distance and had delays between 10 and 15 hour. It somewhat compensates for the lost time.
Re:How to avoid getting stuck with the middle seat on a Ryan...
by majewsky on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:25AM
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So it's just bad luck for me then. Of the 6 flights I have taken, 2 were delayed overnight and one was delayed by ~3 hours.
Re:How to avoid getting stuck with the middle seat on a Ryan...
by maccard on Monday April 23, 2018 @10:55AM
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Yeah, that's fairly bad luck. I've flown about 100 timesover the 4 years, some short haul and some long haul, and in that time frame I've had about 10 flights delayed by > 2 hours. One of those was the volcano incident, and another was the beast from the east a few weeks ago.
* Moscow 2013 to Heathrow -- 4 more hours in the lounge, got €600 compensation.
* Heathrow 2014 to Bangkok, 5 more hours in the lounge -- got €600 compensation.
* Toronto 2017 -- delayed Delta flight to New York to catch a Virgin flight to Manchester so was downgraded and rerouted on KLM. No compensation as it was a U.S. airline. Lesson learned. (No lounge access either so cost me several beers)
I wasn't flying during the Volcano incident.
I do remember being delayed overnight with ryanair due to weather, but that was c. 2003. They wouldn't reroute me on the next morning flight to Anconna (rather than my original Forli flight -- only 50 miles away), so I had to buy a new ticket. It's attitudes like that which is the reason EU261 came in.