Who gets to keep the compensation?

[Memba]

This may well be hypothetical as airline hasn't agreed to anything yet but in the event that they do, who gets the money?

Situation as follows... DH and I took DC1 (18) and DC2 (15) overseas for a week for half term. Each DC brought a friend (same ages).

Both friends parents paid for their flights at approx £250 each. We paid for accommodation, car hire and activities/food/drink. They were effectively our guests.

Return flight was delayed by over 24hrs at fault of airline. I have checked and we are entitled to 600euros compensation per passenger. I have submitted claim on behalf all passengers.

In the event that the airline pays out, who gets the compensation?

Each passenger gets 600 Euros meaning friends parents make a profit on the holiday? Or we refund value of flight and keep the rest as contribution towards the cost of the trip.

FWIW DH and I are both financially disadvantaged by delay (self-employed) so actually lost income. The teenagers had no loss of earnings but got a free bonus night in a star hotel!

So, my AIBU is, in the event that airline cough up, do keep the majority of the compensation?

YANBU - refund flights to parent of each teen and keep the rest
YABU - give each set of parents the full €600

Or some other split?

The airline website encourages one person per booking to claim with the consent of all other passengers. Which I have got.
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Not that it's relevant but for the purpose of the holiday I did have responsibilities in loco parentis (for the 15 yr old at least).^

Of course I could send the 18 year old and parents of the 15 year old a link and tell them to do it themselves but in the light of what has been explained on this thread, that would be unhelpful, wouldn't it?

@Memba
You got consent to fill in the form, but your initial post clearly indicated that you felt you should keep all the money without asking them for permission or offering it to them.
You asked permission to fill in the forms, but you weren’t even going to bother asking permission to keep their money until a bunch of strangers told you to.

If they'd just taken me or one of my children on an all expenses paid holiday for a week, I'd be fine with it.

But I respect that legally this is not acceptable and in a moral sense... well, people have different opinions, as this thread has demonstrated!

FWIW if I claimed on my own behalf I would absolutely offer to pay for my share of the holiday with the compensation.

FFS you really are on your high horse about this, aren't you?!

If I'd thought it was absolutely fine I would've JUST DONE IT. Why do you think I asked the question?!

@thedm oh and I did not at ANY time indicate that I thought it was right to keep ALL the money.

As I said previously, you're not even reading the posts.

Just keep banging that drum.

@Memba then surely the sensible conclusion is everyone keeps the compensation they earn even if it means that other parents are in credit?!?!

@Zerosleep er, yes. It's theirs to do with as they please. As I have previously acknowledged.

But also @zerosleep if you'd read the thread, you'd learn, as I have done, that it belongs to the PASSENGER not the parent. You're welcome

I would say deduct any out of pocket unexpected expenses you incurred due to the delay for each guest, then refund the rest to the parents.

For people who are struggling to grasp that the compensation is for the passengers not those who paid for the flights (not you OP, I know you get it!), think of it like this- during a delay you get hungry so the airline give you a meal. They don’t send meal vouchers to your parents back in the UK who paid for the flight. And one person in the group would not eat all the meals for all the passengers.

Paying money for inconvenience is the same concept.

@Memba 🤣🤣🤣