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A lot of the EU consumer protection laws are actually financial compensation door stops in favour of big corps. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Gjolin@lemmy.ml to c/europe@lemmy.ml

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When the EU law says you are due 600€ for missing a flight, that also means you are due only 600€ for missing a flight, no matter what. Doesn't matter if you missed out on the job of a lifetime, or if you weren't present for your father's last breath. It's so disingenuous how they craft a narrative of citizens/consumers first, but in end effect, the only ones who have the ear of von der Leyen and the rest of the EC are the lobbyists. Metsola is the head of the EP and she's the biggest corporate stooge to ever walk this planet.

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I mean, what do you expect? If you miss a flight and lose a possible job, it doesn’t mean you were guaranteed that job and require compensation of the equivalent.

Lose out on a €100k/year job, do you expect to be compensated that? For some indefinite amount of time? What if you wouldn’t get the job in the first place?

Missing out on your father’s last breath because of a flight issue - how much would you value that? Likely it is impossible to put a financial figure against it.

So what do you expect?

[+] Gjolin@lemmy.ml -11 points 1 month ago

Unnecessary pedantry. There are clearly cases where being denied boarding and a delayed flight will result in financial losses of upwards of whatever pittance they give you in exchange. And the court system is there precisely to calculate the actual incurred financial loss, and the law protects the corporations from this liability.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I literally picked the two points you raised from your post. If it’s pedantic, thats a reflection on your own post.

[-] Gjolin@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 month ago

As I already said, the job of the courts is to determine just financial compensation.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For every single possible delay, or for singular specific events for a single person?

IE.

a flight being delayed because the engine needs to be repaired?

a single person kicked off a flight unfairly?

Courts are funded by tax payers. You want to use the courts to calculate financial compensation individually for every single person ever affected by a delayed/cancelled flight, regardless of the reason?

You are welcome to take cases to the courts, if thats possible.

But what I am interpreting from your replies, you are expecting an insane level of work and cost.

Have you had some specific event affect you, where you have lost out more than €600 euros?

Looks like you’re an immigrant to Germany - what compensation would you get from your “home”/birth country?

edit

As I already said, the job of the courts is to determine just financial compensation.

Is that your own opinion, or the actual legal case which you are being prevented from doing?

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