Legal Action Against Delayed Flights

We were recently delayed by 5.5 hours to Crete. Was at the airport from 12.30 12/9 and got to out destination middle of the night 13/9 with a 23 month old toddler in tow. First day of our 7 day holiday ruined because we were shattered. Delay due to French Air Traffic Control strike and being told no flight crew either.

Should we be compensated?

And guess who will be paying for all these payouts !

200 million passengers to use UK airports every year, roughly two million are delayed by over three hours.

They do, undoubtedly, get most of their passengers where they want to be in under three hours of delayed take-off but 2 million delayed every year is quite substantial. I avoided BA as they seemed to have a lot of delayed flights and cancelled flights (judging by announcements over the tanoy).

I think most airlines do get their passengers and their passengers' luggage to the correct destination, and most freight airlines get the freight to where it's supposed to be. I think I'd call that airlines doing their duty, pretty much. Things are bound to go wrong sometimes.

It's about time some of these airlines were made to do their duty!

It's quite a lot for a 3 hour delay isn't it. The longest I've been kept waiting was 7 hours and not so much as a free cup of coffee!

It does worry me that the cost of flights will increase which would be a problem for many people. If there is no connecting flight that's been missed, I agree - an overnight stay courtest of the airline would be suitable.

I think we should be compensated for flights delayed by so many hours [an additional nights stay in a hotel] if the fault is the airlines, and not say , extreme weather or act of God etc.I think that £680 is a bit much for that though.