How to handle possible cancellation of my Ryanair flight?

10/2/2017 2:44:08 PM

From my experience, RyanAir will not provide any compensation beyond rebooking the flight or a refund. Good luck in getting any service from RyanAir beyond that.

Airlines are supposed to provide some basic compensation for delays over x hours in Europe, but that is fairly limited and not covering the total cost of your airbnb.

We got stuck in Greece last year when the air traffic controllers were threatening to strike. A lot of flights got cancelled and all passengers were scrambling for hotels.

I was traveling with KLM to Amsterdam and my girlfriend was traveling with RyanAir to Dublin. KLM was very helpful and provided a flight with other airlines without any problems. My girlfriend was fully dependent on the flights from RyanAir and she needed to basically keep checking the website.

My travel insurance took care of some additional costs (up to a certain limit per day), but was not fully covering everything because I had a fairly basic plan.

My girlfriend’s travel insurance still needs to pay her claim (after a year!). So check the small print of your travel insurance as well.

10/2/2017 2:00:39 PM

If you are worried about a cancellation, the answer is simple: Don’t book with Ryanair.

You may be entitled to compensation https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/30/ryanair-cancellation-flights-refund-rebook-airline but it’s complicated and likely to interfere with or even ruin your trip. Compensation policy can also change quickly if things get worse for Ryanair

Travel insurance may help, but you need to read the fine print carefully. Insurance only kicks in after all other compensations avenues have been exhausted (which you often have to prove yourself) and even then coverage is often limited to expense paid and that won’t get you a new flight.

If you want to be sure you can make the trip as planned, book a reputable carrier.

Cautionary tale: Monarch Airlines just went bankrupt leaving 100,000 passengers stranded abroad http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/01/news/monarch-airlines-administration/index.html

10/2/2017 10:05:19 AM

Uh, this is exactly the sort of thing travel insurance is sold for – you have an uncertainty that you want covered, and you don’t want to be massively out of pocket if that uncertainty becomes reality.

Go and talk to an insurance broker and have them advise you (on what policy to buy) in writing – that way, you should be covered for both the Ryanair uncertainty and any mis-selling of insurance should the insurance company refuse to pay out.

10/2/2017 11:35:13 AM

Ryanair is obligated to give you the EU flight compensation and they will. Beyond that, do you want a rant on getting what you paid for?

Edit: apparently cancellation rights include

re-routing to their final destination at the earliest opportunity or re-routing at the convenience of the passenger to the final destination subject to availability of seats.

Further, the CAA warned Ryanair that they need to re-route using other airlines as well and refers to flights using alternative airports and that Ryanair is obliged to bear the cost of transferring to those airports. Which is great because Ryanair tends to be fairly unique in their routes from very oddball airports.

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