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Jan's avatar

Actually Europe has a lot of exceptions to this ruling. Everything considered “gods work” yes bad weather is included and things like union strikes are of higher force and the airlines can’t be made responsible for it. Just to add some clarification to the European regulation. But it at least is easy to look up and compare with one’s situation. But airlines pay if the f up - as long as the passenger asks for it and requests it.

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Tom K.'s avatar

You don't want to create a financial incentive for an airline to take off when the weather is poor. An airline can't change the weather nor can it change how its equipment responds to that weather; all you'd be doing is creating a financial incentive for them to take more risk than they currently would. As Jan notes, European / UK delay penalties don't cover weather delays.

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