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Had a flight booked via BA but operated by their partner Finnair which was cancelled by them in December 2020. Originally I was told I could leave it pending and call back to rebook when I knew the new dates or claim a refund. Since the flights for Dec 21 were not released then I decided to call back later. When I called back a couple of months back they said my ticket was only valid till September 21 as I bought the ticket in September 20 and refused to rebook me. 

 

This is a trip to Lapland and it hardly makes any sense to go before September. It needs to be done around Christmas as it was a winter activity holiday. Spoke to a few people about this and they advised that I take BA to court under EU261 Article 8 Schedule C which says - re-routing, under comparable transport conditions, to their final destination at a later date at the passenger’s convenience. According to EU261 they can't force their own ticket rules onto you as the EU261 supersedes it. 

 

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Article 8 – Right to Rerouting

4

1. Where reference is made to this Article, passengers shall be offered the
choice between:
(a) - reimbursement within seven days, by the means provided for in
Article 7(3), of the full cost of the ticket at the price at which it was
bought, for the part or parts already made if the flight is no longer
serving any purpose in relation to the passenger’s original travel
plan...
(b) re-routing, under comparable transport conditions, to their final
destination and at the earliest opportunity; or
(c) re-routing, under comparable transport conditions, to their final
destination at a later date at the passenger’s convenience, subject to
availability of seats.

 

 

The airline is saying I can have a refund but its too late to book the new flights now as they are £1,000pp.

 

Took them to MCOL after booking new tickets and they have replied that it was Finnair who was the operating carrier and that BA are not responsible under Article 8. So I guess I need to go after Finnair but I was reading a thread on here about Ryanair where the OP couldn't take them to the UK court and had to go to Irish court?

 

Finnair says they can't do anything as its a BA ticket and they can't reissue it which they are right about. BA needs to do this after talking with Finnair. 

 

What do I do for my case now? 

 

 

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"… and they have replied…" – Who is "they"?

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I took BA to MCOL and they replied to the court. Basically claiming that they weren’t the operating carrier and their terms state tickets only valid for a year which I accepted when I booked ticket. 

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Please would you post up the claim form and the defence in PDF format.

Presumably the flight was cancelled because of Covid regulations – is that right?

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Yes. They are saying the following - 

"The rebooked flights were subsequently cancelled due to the ongoing restrictions and travel advice on COVID-19."

 

But that doesn't mean they don't have to rebook me. Even if they cancelled due to border restrictions they need to give me the options as per EC261. 

 

The claim forms and defence have personal information on there which I would rather not put online. Would be grateful if you can assist without those? I can supply any information that you need. 

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Redact the documents but put them up. PDF format

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Any chance you can help without that as I don't feel too comfortable putting up the personal case details. 

 

Basically they are claiming they aren't the operating carrier. 

 

1. Court has allowed me to add Finnair to the claim as a joint defendant. Can I take them to MCOL though considering they are a Finnish company? 

 

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No.

If you aren't prepared to let us see the claim that you submitted and the defence then there really isn't anything we can do.
Redact the personal details. Thousands of people present their documents here in exactly this way without any difficulty.

I have to say that you've been here since 2010 and I don't really understand why didn't come to us before you started this. I'm not saying that we would have solved it for you but we might have given you a chance to make it less complicated than it seems to be – although we don't know until we see the documents. 

 

We help you for free – but we need you to help us help you
 

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Ok I will redact the information and upload. It's legal to upload court documents and ask for advice? I always assumed that was private court information which shouldn't be shared online? 

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I don't think a closed or "private" justice system would be compatible with the sort of open society we pride ourselves on living in.

 

"Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done"  blah blah.

 

So long as what you post up is honest, truthful and accurate, what can go wrong?

 

(As BankFodder says, redact all personal details that might allow you to be identified.  I think you've already identified the defendant(s) ).

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2 hours ago, axil23 said:

Ok I will redact the information and upload. It's legal to upload court documents and ask for advice? I always assumed that was private court information which shouldn't be shared online? 

I don't know where you're getting these ideas from.

If it wasn't legal we wouldn't ask you to do it.

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I'm fairly interested in the response because until now I had assumed that the 1 year limit would apply in case of cancellations, and I have unfortunately accepted refunds that I would prefer having kept the tickets for (mostly because they were extremely cheap!).

 

That said since you have been offered a full refund it would be a lot more frictionless for you to accept it and buy a new set of tickets using another airline. Is there a particular reason you absolutely insist to be rerouted? (such as mine above!)

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