Wednesday, September 17, 2014

“More flight delays last summer – NU.nl

"More flight delays last summer – NU.nl

This reports EUclaim that fights for injured fly passengers Wednesday. It involves delays of more than three hours.

Among other things, the bad weather on some days playing tricks on airlines. Especially July 28 had a big impact. By thunderstorms Schiphol was even briefly closed.

airports in other countries, such as Barcelona and Istanbul, were affected by the bad weather.

In total there were 316 delays of more than three hours on the arrival of Dutch companies. This is an increase of 109 percent compared to the same period in 2013 when there were 151 delays.

Last summer there were 181 flights in which customers could request because there was no case of force majeure the money back. This figure is 38 percent higher than in 2013.

KLM and Transavia the number of delays rose the most with 46 and 54 percent respectively. According EUclaim had KLM and Transavia less from force majeure, but especially of technical problems in the fleet.

Arke performs the same as last year, although there are fewer flights were performed. Corendon Dutch Airlines carried 26 percent more flights, but the company had only one more delay where consumers could ask for money back.

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