Who should receive the compensation?

[Olanabunny]

An extended family holiday booked to celebrate somebody's big birthday
Birthday person's cost for the holiday was spread between the rest of the people attending. 2 free child places were also applied
Flight was significantly delayed
Compensation was claimed by the lead of the booking and received today.
How should it be split?
Should the children with a free place be awarded it? Should the birthday person receive a share even though they didn't pay anything towards the holiday or should those who paid for their holiday receive a portion of it back?

BECAUSE THEY WERE INCONVENIENCED.

ITS NOT A REFUND!!!

The compensation people don't know who did and didn't pay for the tickets, they know 8 people were due a pay out of £500 EACH.

I didn’t say I wouldn’t claim. What I said was if I was having a free holiday paid for by others then was held up. I wouldn’t expect a share of the compensation. I still got a free holiday. The compensation in my opinion should go to the people who paid for the holiday. I just personally wouldn’t feel comfortable having money on top of my free holiday. I would want it to go to the people who paid for the holiday in the first place.

That’s lovely for them all but the person who paid for my holiday could keep my share as a thanks from me. People don’t have to agree with me but I would at the very least make the offer. Remember this is just my opinion nobody has to agree with me!!

This! This is what I would do! Distribute it.

OK. So you are saying that you would not personally feel that your inconvenience was a big deal, and did not have any monetary value to you. But you’d still make the airline pay it, so you could use the windfall to pay some money for a holiday you’d previously been happy to accept for free.

Are you deliberately trying to wind me up? The compensation was paid after the holiday wasn’t it? So I wouldn’t be paying towards the free holiday. As far as I’m concerned they can use my share for whatever they want!

But you’d only be offering them your share because they paid for your holiday…

Not the OP.
Most family's who got compensation.., That was claimed as a group, seem to agree that after talks they would wave the compensation and instead compensate everyone based on the cost of the original holiday.
Which is not illegal, as it would be agreed in a group chat.

I don't think anyone's arguing that the non-paying passengers shouldn't be allowed to give their compensation to the payers as a thank you.

But it isn't for the OP individually, or for the group as a whole, to decide that on their behalf.

And just as some think it "cheeky" for someone to accept compensation relating to a flight they didn't pay for, I think it could be equally argued that it's cheeky to buy someone a birthday present then expect reimbursement out of the recipient's compensation.

My God, this so frustrating. Pay those who paid. The children didn't. Surely people are not this stupid.

I’ve heard it said that the law’s an ass before, but the legal position is that the compensation is split per traveller. Nothing to do with who’s paid.

But that's theft, plain and simple.

The compensation has nothing to do with who paid.

It's for sitting in an airport. The children sat in an airport along with everyone else.

All the other children sitting in that airport will be receiving compensation (or their parents on their behalf).

'Isn't compensation for inconvenience though? Do the money should go to those inconvenienced. Like when I book a train through work and it gets cancelled and I end up at York station for 3 extra hours, I get that compensation they don't, because it's my time wasted'.

This.

Plus as one to whom this task usually falls, a token thank you for the person who had all the arse ache of sorting out the compensation.

Ask how the amount was arrived at.

There would have been some calculation to assess the compensation

My god, this is so frustrating, pay the compensation to all travellers, as the money is paid per person travelling, not per person who paid for the tickets. Because it. Is. Not. A. Refund. Surely people are not this stupid?

The OP has already said it's £520 per person and that it's compensation for the delayed flight.

That corresponds with the monetary amounts that travelers are legally entitled to for an internal EU flight (over 1,500km) that is delayed by 4 hours or more.

I don't think there's much ambiguity here.

Correct principle but slightly off on the detail.

£520 is the fixed sum per passenger for a flight into the UK on a UK or EU airline, from somewhere over 3500km away. Delay must be. 3 hours or more at destination.

Or same delay on a flight out of the UK on any airline to a destination more than 3500km away.

www.caa.co.uk/passengers-and-public/resolving-travel-problems/delays-and-cancellations/delays/

Legally it should be given to each passenger delayed. I received compensation for a delayed flight paid for by my work as I was the one delayed for 24 hours. Who paid is not relevant. Could you not discuss with your family and say legally we should each get x amount but I suggest the ones who paid receive the compensation. Then everyone is aware and can agree how to proceed.

This

Everyone gets their portion of compensation. It was booked as a group. They all got delayed as a group. They must get on etc to be going away together. To stop any resentment they all just take their share. It isn't the lead bookers money, it's their job to give it out. There's nothing to think about. Dave and Sarah end up with £2k but it that's the way it goes. It would be nice if they could book another break away with it.

Let’s say you went on holiday with your two kids. You paid for your family, you got one free child place and paid for the other.

The flight was delayed. Would you claim the compensation for one child, two children or no children?

@Olanabunny are you anywhere out there?!