Timeline for Does the EU air passenger rights regulation require rebooking into a higher class, if no seat in the same class are available?
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| Aug 26, 2018 at 13:54 | comment | added | Martin Argerami | @alephzero: and any half-decent lawyer would destroy that lawyer, by showing with witnesses and examples how the world "comparable" is widely used. Even in physics and math the word is used as above and not as the literal meaning suggests. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 8:53 | comment | added | alephzero | A lawyer might argue that "comparable" simply means "they can be compared", (i.e. they can't bump you off a plane and book you on a week-long train journey half way round the world) not "they are approximately the same." In one sense all commercial passenger flights in any class are "comparable." | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 7:24 | comment | added | DonQuiKong | Uh, comparable transport conditions could be interpreted as “at least comparable“. Those are passenger rights after all, not airline rights (whose interests would make it “at most comparable“. It's a good answer, but for a definite one we'd need case law. | |
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| Aug 26, 2018 at 1:56 | comment | added | Kevin | @Eric: Yes, c is clearly intended for cases where a passenger does not like the airline's offer and wants to postpone to a later date or time. That might be useful under certain circumstances where the passenger's flight is time sensitive but can be rescheduled. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 1:45 | comment | added | Eric | @user The way I read is that they MUST offer you a seat on the next available flight with comparable transport conditions but passengers may instead request a different, later flight but airlines are only obliged to honor this request if there are seats with comparable transport conditions. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 1:09 | comment | added | user | @dunni The question is: why (C) adds subject to availability of seats, but not (b)? Obviously, that must be true for (b) as well, could it be that the requirements for (b) are more stringent, and require more flexibility? | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 23:01 | comment | added | origimbo | It does say "comparable" rather than Identical, so you have more of a case for jumping from e.g. Economy to Premium Economy than all the way from coach to first. I'm not aware of any case law anywhere which has actually tested this yet. | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 22:53 | history | answered | dunni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |