{"id":56708,"date":"2017-06-02T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T11:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ba-chaos-why-im-flying-the-flag-for-the-new-arbitration-scheme\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T11:19:39","slug":"ba-chaos-why-im-flying-the-flag-for-the-new-arbitration-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ba-chaos-why-im-flying-the-flag-for-the-new-arbitration-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"BA chaos: why I\u2019m flying the flag for the new arbitration scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt could help those passengers whose plans were wrecked by the airline\u2019s recent meltdown, as one barrister has found outThe chaos BA descended into last weekend will come as little surprise to some people who regularly use the airline. My battles with it were described in these pages last July. Within a few weeks of that another failure by BA led me to make a compensation claim which the airline attempted to avoid. Judged by my experience, BA\u2019s position seems to be that it will make payments arising from the computer failure, but only where people assert the claim.EU rules mean most passengers will receive between \u20ac250 and \u20ac600 depending on the length of the affected flight. But many will have suffered substantial out-of-pocket losses on top, which is where most disputes may arise. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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It could help those passengers whose plans were wrecked by the airline\u2019s recent meltdown, as...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-eKE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60304,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-a-testing-time-for-ba-passengers-who-lost-out-in-it-chaos\/","url_meta":{"origin":56708,"position":0},"title":"It\u2019s a testing time for BA passengers who lost out in IT chaos","date":"July 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We\u2019ve had no holiday and are \u00a3800 out of pocket, but travel insurance won\u2019t payBA\u2019s well-publicised IT meltdown over the May half-term resulted in our flights being cancelled, and we had to abandon our family holiday to Sweden. 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But its battle get paid is likely to be typical of many othersA family of six who lost their holiday to Portugal after the British Airways meltdown are still out of pocket, because neither the airline\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20030,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-thought-wed-booked-a-flight-on-ba-but-ended-up-on-a-budget-airline\/","url_meta":{"origin":56708,"position":4},"title":"We thought we\u2019d booked a flight on BA but ended up on a budget airline","date":"July 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We paid for British Airways standards and service, not for a no-frills experienceI would like to draw your attention to our recent experience with BA. In June my partner and I flew to Rome on BA2542, and had reservations to return on BA8844 a week or so later at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":92232,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-item-added-to-security-check-for-us-bound-airline-passengers\/","url_meta":{"origin":56708,"position":5},"title":"New item added to security check for US-bound airline passengers","date":"June 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Passengers carrying more than twelve ounces of powder will be subject to additional screening starting on June 30\r \r Source : arabianbusiness.com\r Read more...New item added to security check for US-bound airline passengers","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}