It's good to see that someone's managed to remain completely neutral on the matter.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:02, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I'm glad I wasn't in Foreign
or due to go there.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Me too
I had been thinking last week, "Bugger, I really should have taken a proper holiday and gone somewhere."

Hindsight's wonderful, though, isn't it?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:11, Reply)

You would have got an extra week of holidays
With all paid (at least if it was in Europe or with an European airline), which doesn't seem too bad to me
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:15, Reply)

Well, yes, the plus side
if, say, I'd followed my sister to Prague, would have been a longer holiday - panic about money and accomodation notwithstanding - followed by a brief tour of Germany, Belgium and France as I tried to get back another way.

Though conversely, my sister's solution - a 25-hour coach journey from Prague to Manchester - sounds like the least pleasant way to get around it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:18, Reply)

The airline must pay accomodation and expenses
By law.

You'd only be putting more time out of work, which might mean losing some money, but then you get paid hotels and food en Europe.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)

I thought they didn't have to pay if it was a natural disaster
I thought they only had to put you up if the delay was caused by them
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:27, Reply)

That is the insurance
But the airline must make sure you have a place to stay and food until they can take you back home. It's a European law (you see, we are not all bad) so if you're in Europe or somewhere else but are coming back with a European airline they have to pay for all that.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:33, Reply)

ahhh
I lives and learns, thanks.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 21 Apr 2010, 16:36, Reply)