New - The things that really annoy you

[EpsomWolf]

If you fly often enough, this can happen, but still crap all round.

Don't know your connection or airport, but if your booking is OneWorld, StarAlilance or FlyingTeam - can't they get you on a partner airline?

Anyway - here's hoping it's a single through booking, so you can at least get the £520 pp delayed flight compensation as it left from the UK.

Interesting, I’ll look into that, thanks.

So: in Atlanta, destination San Jose, Costa Rica.
Both flights Delta Airlines, one booking. Flight late leaving Heathrow due to ‘mechanical issue’. Subsequently miss Atlanta connecting flight.

Delta rebook us on the later flight (28 hrs later!), put us on standby for an earlier one, and offer hotel accommodation and food voucher.

However, needing to be available for standby this morning means hotel can’t be used (although gesture is acknowledged).

Delta have been decent in looking at alternatives, via LA etc but nothing doing at all. We’ve offered to fly to a different CR airport and drive but because the bags are ‘locked in’ the destination has to be SJ, and Delta wouldn’t honour any costs or obligations to a different final destination anyway.

Think Delta’s website says no delay compensation and am wondering if the £520 is an EU thing (although recognising we’re not actually in it anymore of course)?

Even with the later flight, going to arrive about midnight, missing the hire car collection so another night in an airport til it reopens at 6.

Bloody hell, desperate to get on standby flight, should know within the hour

 

[broughtonwolf]

Interesting, I’ll look into that, thanks.

So: in Atlanta, destination San Jose, Costa Rica.
Both flights Delta Airlines, one booking. Flight late leaving Heathrow due to ‘mechanical issue’. Subsequently miss Atlanta connecting flight.

Delta rebook us on the later flight (28 hrs later!), put us on standby for an earlier one, and offer hotel accommodation and food voucher.

However, needing to be available for standby this morning means hotel can’t be used (although gesture is acknowledged).

Delta have been decent in looking at alternatives, via LA etc but nothing doing at all. We’ve offered to fly to a different CR airport and drive but because the bags are ‘locked in’ the destination has to be SJ, and Delta wouldn’t honour any costs or obligations to a different final destination anyway.

Think Delta’s website says no delay compensation and am wondering if the £520 is an EU thing (although recognising we’re not actually in it anymore of course)?

Even with the later flight, going to arrive about midnight, missing the hire car collection so another night in an airport til it reopens at 6.

Bloody hell, desperate to get on standby flight, should know within the hour

Hope everything works out for you.

Delta are Skyteam but as you are already now in the US I guess all the onwards flights are theirs anyway. Atlanta is also their hub so the most available options.

You should be entitled to the compensation as your flight left the UK and is therefore governed by UK regulations regardless of the fact that Delta is a US airline. Because the outbound London flight was delayed causing you to miss their onward connection and therefore end up more than 3 hours delayed in total and the distance is 3500km plus, the compensation is £520.00 pp. Mechanical failure of an airplane does not count as outside of airline's control. It used to be EU regs but the UK left them basically the same post Brexit.

Claim compensation if your flight's delayed or cancelled

When you’re due help or compensation for a delayed or cancelled flight, how much you’ll get and how to claim

www.citizensadvice.org.uk

They should also be giving you accommodation if overnight delay and food & drink vouchers and you should be able to claim reasonable expenses in airport. Just keep receipts.

 

[EpsomWolf]

Oh my Lordy Lord, space!!! Depart 20 mins, What. A. Relief.

 

[BillyDee]

Fricking heating is bust at work again

 

[leedswolf]

Minimum indoor working temperature recommended by the HSE is 16°C for sedentary work, or 13°C for strenuous work.

 

[Jack Regan]

Yep amusingly a few years ago before COVID we all got sent to work from home due to our office heating being broke. Got home and it was 10°c in my house, miles bloody colder than the office, but I was told I couldn't work there.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Been diagnosed with plantar fasciitis today after believing for a long time it was tendonitis so I've been doing fairly pointless physio which hasn't really helped as we've been targeting the wrong areas. Currently awaiting the sweet release of naproxen, the pain over the last 48 days hasn't been fun.

 

[Tredman]

Been diagnosed with plantar fasciitis today after believing for a long time it was tendonitis so I've been doing fairly pointless physio which hasn't really helped as we've been targeting the wrong areas. Currently awaiting the sweet release of naproxen, the pain over the last 48 days hasn't been fun.

Ouch, I had that for ages. Good news was correct physio treatment solved it for me. Also those nobble foot rollers helped too.

 

[sycophantia]

Been diagnosed with plantar fasciitis today after believing for a long time it was tendonitis so I've been doing fairly pointless physio which hasn't really helped as we've been targeting the wrong areas. Currently awaiting the sweet release of naproxen, the pain over the last 48 days hasn't been fun.

Think it varies what works for who.
Physio didn't do much for me,
Insoles we're best for me, although I tried a few different types before I found some that were effective.
Mines gone now, haven't suffered since I retired after 10 years of he'll.
Good luck.

 

[ROVERT47]

Playing Everton at 8 o’clock on a Saturday night, just fuck off!

 

[Dire Wolf]

Ouch, I had that for ages. Good news was correct physio treatment solved it for me. Also those nobble foot rollers helped too.

When I had it, a plantar boot got rid of it within a few days. Wore the boot in bed and when not moving around. Combined it with a certain way of taping with kinesiology tape when needing to be on my feet.

 

[leedswolf]

Been diagnosed with plantar fasciitis today after believing for a long time it was tendonitis so I've been doing fairly pointless physio which hasn't really helped as we've been targeting the wrong areas. Currently awaiting the sweet release of naproxen, the pain over the last 48 days hasn't been fun.

Chiropractic care?

 

[Tredman]

When I had it, a plantar boot got rid of it within a few days. Wore the boot in bed and when not moving around. Combined it with a certain way of taping with kinesiology tape when needing to be on my feet.

Ah yes, I did tape too. Physio wrapped the hell out of my foot.

 

[Kenny]

Getting a jury service summons letter this morning.

 

[leedswolf]

Getting a jury service summons letter this morning.

A chance to do your public duty is 'annoying'?

 

[sycophantia]

Getting a jury service summons letter this morning.

Good luck, I had 2 in less than 6 months last year, didn't mind being called up but I never got called for a trial, 2 x 2 weeks wasted.

 

[Kenny]

A chance to do your public duty is 'annoying'?

Yes, hence popping it in the annoyed thread.

 

[leedswolf]

Yes, hence popping it in the annoyed thread.

Well I never...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The one sole benefit of Covid. I got called up in Feb 2020 and was due to sit in April 2020. Obviously got cancelled. Was when I was self-employed too and a cursory look indicated it was going to be a right ballache to claim anything like the right kind of money back.

In theory it could be quite interesting but the reality seems to be a load of time sitting around doing nothing, and that's the better part of the deal as the rest is having to deal with your average person and their "understanding" of the law.

 

[SSB]

I think I’ve mentioned this on here before, but the bonkers bit I found was at the end of the day after leaving court one of the fellow jury members caught the bus back home with the defendants family all sat on the upper deck!