Airline lies about reasons for technical problems to avoid compensation

7/31/2022 3:44:41 PM

Yes, they can lie.

Same thing happened to me. They refused to pay. Said it’s unforesable circumstances. I asked what it is. They said that they do not have the right to make this information public.

I turned to an organisation who deals with compensation claims on daily basis and knows the inside outs. And the airline agreed to pay them. Two months later.

So yes, I guess a lawyer, and suing them, for fraud or whatever could be an option.

4/5/2019 11:24:40 PM

You can try contacting the national enforcement body in the EU country of your departure to hear if they can help. But even if they ultimately agree that it looks like foul play, they can’t force the airline to pay out.

At the end of the day, your recourse is indeed to file a civil lawsuit. Since there appears to be a dispute about facts, you will most probably need to engage a lawyer to conduct the suit for you in a way that has any chance of getting the court to find for you.

There are law firms that take compensation cases on a no-cure-no-pay basis. I don’t know whether they would touch a case where the airline has alleged a bird strike; you could call a few of them to find out before hiring a traditional lawyer.

(And in the upcoming EU parliament elections you might ask your local candidates how they feel about tightening up the “extraordinary circumstances” loophole in the regulation. Ostensibly it is there to cater for Eyafjallajökull-level calamities that affect all airlines at the same time, but the ECJ has applied it to purely local chance mishaps that for all I can see ought to count as a risk-of-doing-business that the airlines should be expected to factor into their ticket prices).

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