June 27th - Do we need to start checking our plane's performance history?
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
If you are tracking a flight you have booked to see how well it is performing – and you don't like what you see – can you cancel and get a full refund? Sadly, perhaps, once you commit to a flight, past performance is inadmissable as grounds for getting your money back. But you can do some useful ground work. I take you through what tracking can be good for and what you can do to limit your loss if a flight is cancelled this summer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the first travel podcast of the week from the Independent and from me, |
| 0:08.0 | Simon Calder, and you are very welcome. Well, our weekend, don't know about yours, has been spent a great deal of it, |
| 0:18.0 | hearing from people who are concerned about their summer travel plans. |
| 0:23.8 | And look, I completely understand the anticipation that's turning into apprehension as the |
| 0:31.7 | stories mount of chaos and confusion. Of course, the latest possible move is that a shortage of staff at Heathrow |
| 0:42.0 | is going to be compounded by strikes. And certainly there were some very long delays over the |
| 0:47.5 | weekend, people coming in from Hanover, for instance, at the time I am recording this, are still not there. |
| 0:55.8 | They were due in on Sunday evening. |
| 0:58.2 | They may be back in time for afternoon tea. |
| 1:02.4 | British airways cancelled over 120 flights today. |
| 1:05.5 | The vast majority of those notified well in advance. |
| 1:08.9 | And I've been looking around Heathrow. |
| 1:12.7 | No sign of any baggage mountains but once again please allow me to remind you that carrying cabin baggage only is a smart |
| 1:21.2 | move that's particularly the case for a question I've got in from Katie in North London. |
| 1:28.3 | Here's her situation. |
| 1:30.3 | It's an interesting one which I thought would be worth sharing with you. |
| 1:34.3 | She's got a flight booked on at the end of July, |
| 1:38.3 | Gatwick to Venice, and she has been, |
| 1:42.3 | because of all the concerns about flights being delayed and cancelled and so on at short notice, |
| 1:48.1 | she has been tracking that flight. So she's been seeing if it's been running as normal. And she says, |
| 1:58.1 | no, we've counted three outright cancellations on the day including |
| 2:03.8 | Sunday just gone plus a 10 hour delay it appears that weekends are particularly tricky she |
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