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Author: gAgA Date: Feb 15, 2008 02:17
Four months ago BA left me stranded in Rome after canceling all
their flights. I had to find my way back to Canada without any
assistance and this cost me a lot of money in purchasing other air
tickets, hotels, taxis, etc. BA acknowledged the problem at first
but refuse to answer any of my follow-up correspondence. What's
the best way to deal with this? Has anyone ever been in this
situation? Is there an authority on these matters? Should the
Canadian Court have jurisdiction on this?
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
- gA
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Author: David BennettsDavid Bennetts Date: Feb 15, 2008 02:42
"gA" ualberta.net> wrote in message
news:JEdtj.40737$Ly.23856@pd7urf1no...> Four months ago BA left me stranded in Rome after canceling all their
> flights. I had to find my way back to Canada without any assistance and
> this cost me a lot of money in purchasing other air tickets, hotels,
> taxis, etc. BA acknowledged the problem at first but refuse to answer any
> of my follow-up correspondence. What's the best way to deal with this? Has
> anyone ever been in this situation? Is there an authority on these
> matters? Should the Canadian Court have jurisdiction on this?
> Thanks for any advice you can offer.
> - gA
Yes - next time purchase travel insurance.
If you look at the fine print on your conditions of carriage you'll most
likely find you have very little if any recourse with the airline. I'd
doubt whether a Canadian court had any jurisdiction over an airline
domiciled in Britain.
Regards
David Bennetts
Australia
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Author: gAgA Date: Feb 15, 2008 03:09
Does the airline have a contractual obligation to take me from A
to B? Travel Insurance may be the way to protect myself, but
should it be necessary to prevent rip-offs?
- gA
David Bennetts wrote:
> "gA" ualberta.net> wrote in message
> news:JEdtj.40737$Ly.23856@pd7urf1no...>> Four months ago BA left me stranded in Rome after canceling all their
>> flights. I had...
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Author: PatPat Date: Feb 15, 2008 05:58
"gA" ualberta.net> wrote in message
news:JEdtj.40737$Ly.23856@pd7urf1no...> Four months ago BA left me stranded in Rome after canceling all their
> flights.
Try an ombudsman. Travel magazines have them and some cities do as well.
Somebody just quoted a story from the National Geographic Travel Magazine's
article on fat passengers taking up two seats. IIRC, Conde Nast magazine
also has a travel ombudsman who works on these sort of problems for
passengers.
Pat in TX
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Date: Feb 15, 2008 06:21
"gA" ualberta.net> wrote in message
news:Dpetj.48021$FA.19201@pd7urf2no...> Does the airline have a contractual obligation to take me from A to B?
Only within the limits of the terms of the contract, which you accepted when
buying the ticket. Those terms almost certainly exclude any circumstances
that result in the airline having to cancel all their flights.
Colin Bignell
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Author: HatunenHatunen Date: Feb 15, 2008 08:28
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:21:30 -0000, "nightjar"
surname here>.me.uk> wrote:
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>"gA" ualberta.net> wrote in message
>news:Dpetj.48021$FA.19201@pd7urf2no...>> Does the airline have a contractual obligation to take me from A to B?
>
>Only within the limits of the terms of the contract, which you accepted when
>buying the ticket. Those terms almost certainly exclude any circumstances
>that result in the airline having to cancel all their flights.
Such cancellations are usually the result of so-called "acts of
God", and those are an out built into almost any such contract.
--
************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@ cox.net) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
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Author: David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*David Horne, _the_ chancellor (* Date: Feb 15, 2008 08:34
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:21:30 -0000, "nightjar"
> surname here>.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>"gA" ualberta.net> wrote in message
>>news:Dpetj.48021$FA.19201@pd7urf2no...>>> Does the airline have a contractual obligation to take me from A to B?
>>
>>Only within the limits of the terms of the contract, which you accepted when
>>buying the ticket. Those terms almost certainly exclude any circumstances
>>that result in the airline having to cancel all their flights.
>
> Such cancellations are usually the result of so-called "acts of
> God", and those are an out built into almost any such contract.
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Author: tim (not at home)tim (not at home) Date: Feb 15, 2008 09:08
>
> "gA" ualberta.net> wrote in message
> news:JEdtj.40737$Ly.23856@pd7urf1no...>> Four months ago BA left me stranded in Rome after canceling all their
>> flights. I had to find my way back to Canada without any assistance and
>> this cost me a lot of money in purchasing other air tickets, hotels,
>> taxis, etc. BA acknowledged the problem at first but refuse to answer any
>> of my follow-up correspondence. What's the best way to deal with this?
>> Has anyone ever been in this situation? Is there an authority on these
>> matters? Should the Canadian Court have jurisdiction on this?
>> Thanks for any advice you can offer.
>> - gA
>
> Yes - next...
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