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Another non-story in the local rag about someone moaning about a flight from BRS. This is the fifth in the past few weeks with the others involving easyJet and passengers who missed flights that everyone else caught.
This time the airline is Ryanair and again involves someone after some compo.
Briefly the BRS-DUB flight was delayed by 40 minutes leaving for DUB because of a minor technical issue. When it reached DUB the weather conditions were obviously marginal because of strong winds. After two attempts to land at DUB the captain diverted to Shannon from where the passengers were taken to DUB by coach, arriving six hours after the scheduled aircraft arrival time.
The complainant believes that she is entitled to 600 euros compensation because the BRS departure was delayed by 40 minutes following the technical issue with the aircraft. She contends that had it departed BRS on time the weather might not have been as severe when the aircraft reached DUB and could have landed.
She is obviously a bit of a drama queen because she said the two failed attempts to land was a 'near death experience'. She was also able to say that with one of the failed attempts to land the aircraft was only six feet above the ground when the attempt was aborted. She is either an unusually good judge of height above ground from an aircraft or her mental state (''I was a complete mess, scary and crying') somehow sharpened her visual senses by a remarkable degree. She says the cabin crew was also handing out alcohol to some passengers during the diversion which she believed was a 'lure to not complain or claim any entitled compensation'.
Now whilst I have sympathy with passengers who are upset when turbulence strikes most of that sympathy disappears with situations like this where someone is clearly trying to get some cash out of an incident that was really beyond the control of the airline. There is no evidence provided in the report that the short delay on departure from BRS because of a minor technical issue coincided with a sudden deterioration in weather at DUB.
In any case, what if the 40-minute delay had enabled the aircraft to reach DUB in acceptable weather whereas an on-time departure coincided with non-acceptable weather causing a diversion. Would she then have complained that the aircraft should have waited 40 minutes before leaving BRS?
If you fly you have to be prepared to put up with poor weather at times and the inconvenience that can sometimes bring.
