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For flights departing or arriving in the EU you get fairly nice compensation for significant delays (3+ hours) between 250 EUR ( =1500km). Helps ensure incentives align beyond reputation.
Tell me about it. Swiss air refuses to pay out 1800€ in EC261 compensation…
I was affected. Taking off now for a 5:30pm PT flight to Seattle. Aside from clearly not having an appropriate disaster readiness plan, communication was bad even though some information was readily available. For example, there was an inbound ground stop for KSEA for hours, but it was never announced to passengers. We were very lucky the crew was fresh, and there was no discussion of when they would time out. I happ…
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I was affected. Taking off now for a 5:30pm PT flight to Seattle. Aside from clearly not having an appropriate disaster readiness plan, communication was bad even though some information was readily available. For example, there was an inbound ground stop for KSEA for hours, but it was never announced to passengers. We were very lucky the crew was fresh, and there was no discussion of when they would time out. I happ…
For flights departing or arriving in the EU you get fairly nice compensation for significant delays (3+ hours) between 250 EUR ( =1500km). Helps ensure incentives align beyond reputation.
Some other airlines "swap planes" and do swapsies with every passengers, on every flights, if they get a morning delay; they trickle it down all day long. It's ridiculous seeing lines of people moving to another gate, all day. When your plane arrive at your gate, you know you're being moved to another line and the delayed passengers will get your plane. So that way, delays stay within the bounds!
Sickening, I'm never flying these airlines again.
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https://www.alaskaair.com/content/advisories/travel-advisori... It is on top of the page and linked a in it
Ah, okay. I did a Google search for that phrase before posting my comment, but couldn't find any result. Probably its not indexed yet. Thanks for the clarification. Still I think it would have been better for OP to link to the source to avoid exactly this confusion.
Most people will read both the comment and webpage, or neither. In either case there's no problem.
It's only your uncommon case of reading the comment, not reading the webpage, and yet still feeling confident in making assertions about the webpage contents, where there's an issue. But that's not common, and I daresay the issue is not on OP's end.
I was affected. Taking off now for a 5:30pm PT flight to Seattle. Aside from clearly not having an appropriate disaster readiness plan, communication was bad even though some information was readily available. For example, there was an inbound ground stop for KSEA for hours, but it was never announced to passengers. We were very lucky the crew was fresh, and there was no discussion of when they would time out. I happ…
For flights departing or arriving in the EU you get fairly nice compensation for significant delays (3+ hours) between 250 EUR ( =1500km). Helps ensure incentives align beyond reputation.
I believe the argument is that regulation encumbers airlines and, instead, the free market will incentivise participants to handle outages and delayed flights in a competitive way.
No details? I say we assume it was an expired certificate outage.
Are you saying that it isn’t always DNS?
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> Several reported having to be diverted How does that work? What is it about a computer outage in your parent company that affects whether you're able to make an already-scheduled landing?
No flights were departing their gates in SEA so presumably it was turned around to avoid gridlock at SEA due to no gates available.
A small excerpt of the memorable ones or where I was personally affected, but there have been many more over the period:
Holiday 2022 Southwest system collapse July 2024 Delta 5 day outage August 2025 United weight and balance outage June 2025 American outage October 2025 AWS outage impacting AS, AA, UA, DL