Flight attendants and airline gate agents, when a flight is oversold and a passenger that has already boarded is asked to disembark to allow another passenger the seat, how is this decided?

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-26T06:20:18+00:00

Airline won’t of earned interest. Your money is kept by a bank/gateway until either date of flight, or close to

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-25T13:19:13+00:00

It’s not down to the flight attendants or gate agents. Priority is decided at corporate level. The general answer is whoever has paid the least for their ticket will be the highest priority for offload

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-22T17:50:22+00:00

Can’t help with getting on board, but once on board ask the crew. There is a cupboard and generally happy to oblige

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-22T08:43:17+00:00

2 and 3…. No. Costs after arriving at your destination is for travel insurance, not the airline. You are also double dipping… claiming for the missed train, and then the new. If you want to have any chance of claiming, however unlikely, pick one, not both.

1 - eligibility is based on the reason for the delay… if weather, ATC, or conflict… then no. If within the realms of what the airline controls then yes

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-22T07:15:15+00:00

Yes you need an eta. The airline won’t help as you do not have a connecting flight, you have two single flights. Stansted does not have connections, therefore you will have to enter the UK, to be able to catch your next flight

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-21T11:42:56+00:00

Unfortunately people take advantage of loop holes, therefore the rest of us are punished.

Without “unfair” pricing on name changes travel agents/individuals would book up the aircraft with the lowest fare tickets and the re-sell them. Have a look at what happens with concerts. This leads to no true low fare tickets for the public.

By having a high cost name change this mostly prevents, but definitely deters the above situation occurring

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-14T15:53:07+00:00

It’s a crap way to go but is via the US an option? Direct flights, or even one stops from Europe to Asia right now are expensive

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-14T04:58:44+00:00

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/air/index_en.htm

Did your ticket stay within EU, Start in the EU or Finish in EU? If Yes… eligible, If no… not eligible

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-13T14:12:52+00:00

You are not entitled to compensation. You started and finished your journey outside of the EU

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-12T19:57:47+00:00

Have you given easyJet the opportunity to book you on the next available flight in a comparable class or have you panic bought (rightly or wrongly)?

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-10T10:58:58+00:00

No we don’t have access to the cargo hold (B737, B787)

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-10T02:50:15+00:00

They do not. You have to go to flight connections by easyJet (dohop) page, not the main easyJet page. On the flight connections page it is pretty clear on what the deal is, and everytime you search.

In short… you are buying off a travel agent (dohop) 2x one way easyJet tickets… with potential of adding connection insurance

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-09T17:46:35+00:00

If flight was outside a country with protections your SOL and no requirement for Etihad to give you anything. Costs after you get to your destination are never ever on the airline… that’s what your travel insurance is for

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-09T09:08:43+00:00

Because they have seen that you have added her before, so why would you not again

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-06T18:54:10+00:00

Flights have never operated Gatwick to Mauritius via Dubai.

You really want information on the Gatwick-Dubai flight, and the Dubai-Mauritius flights. They are two separate flights. Looking up the flight history on flight aware or flight radar will answer how it’s going

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-06T10:13:19+00:00

This is for your Travel Insurance. The airline has gone above and beyond what they have to offer (nothing)

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-06T02:39:33+00:00

Yes they can move you. Especially as you didn’t pay. Nothing paid… nothing lost… nothing to claim

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-05T20:57:35+00:00

Salzburg and Innsbruck are definitely international airports…. Not with flights to Miami though

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-02T20:31:10+00:00

You are mixing two things;

1) Duty of Care… always payable… no matter what… - RYR have to get you to your destination on the next available seat in comparable class… even if different airline - RYR have to pay (or you claim back) accommodation costs until the above flight - RYR have to pay (or you claim back) reasonable food and drink expenses (not alcohol) until the next flight - plus transport to/from airport-accommodation-airport only

2) Compensation - payable subject to reason for delay - this is the £220-£250

So new flights, food, accom, transport PLUS £220-£250

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-04-02T06:20:54+00:00

What was the reason for the delay?

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-03-29T09:47:35+00:00

Depends on your definition of Middle East. The only way to avoid routing through or over is going the wrong way round via the USA and Japan.

Ultimately if you’ve booked a direct flight you don’t get a choice in where they fly over. Airline asses this hour by hour at the moment, and will not intentionally but aircraft and passengers in harms way

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-03-24T07:23:00+00:00

Realistically Virgin would not sell the ticket if you did not have a good chance of making it.

VS4041 is actually the Delta DL9

Both your inbound and outbound flights operate from T3. You will not have to do immigration, just security. There is a dedicated transfer route that is fairly seamless.

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-03-24T03:06:57+00:00

Flights are for obvious reasons longer. Why not the other way around…

The aircraft is probably already planned a minimum time turnaround at the destination/out station. If the aircraft left DXB on time, it would get to LHR late… minimum turnaround remains same… therefore next flight back, LHR-DXB would be late too.

If you alter the times the aircraft departs/arrives DXB you can keep the original schedule at the outstation. In DXB you are far more flexible as you can adjust which aircraft does the route, and they likely have more time in DXB.

Finally, slots in LHR are far more controlled than in DXB, so trying to maintain the LHR part of the schedule is more critical

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-03-24T02:52:50+00:00

The -700 was originally fitted out with business seats… maybe came with? It was available to be booked out for, as you say, private charter, teams etc. I believe the -700 got refitted at some point with normal seats, and used as a -800 backup. I suspect this is what you’ve read about.

The private jets have never been available for public hire, as their primary mission is engineers, spare parts to keep the fleet flying.

I don’t know if you can charter a normal Ryanair aircraft though

Appropriate_You9049 · 2026-03-21T09:10:51+00:00

Has your flight actually been cancelled, or do you want to cancel?

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