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Elderberry Pavlovas Unite - the over 30s TTC number 1

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Bunnygirlie · 07/10/2012 22:06

Hi y'all, Welcome to our new meeting place :-) Let's refresh as usual -

Bunnygirlie - 32, married, TTC since June, due to OV this week according to app

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janey1234 · 30/10/2012 21:18

(Not sure about my use of the Hmm face then, but is by far my fave of the options available. Anyone got any idea what this Biscuit is for?!)

Quodlibet · 30/10/2012 21:30

Well this is shit. Plane scheduled for 20.45 broke down. The earliest they can get a replacement out here is 04.15am!!! In the meantime we are offered a 9 euro voucher to spend in the tiny cafe. No hotel, not even a blanket. I am going to end up landing at 6am UK time having had no sleep, which also means my day of (freelance) work tomorrow is a write off. SOOO CROSS!!!

Pipbin · 30/10/2012 21:43

It's a biscuit Janey

That sucks hugely Quod, play the pregnant woman card, I would.

janey1234 · 30/10/2012 21:45

Oh quod, not what you need esp when pg. Sad

Check out the EU rules on delayed flights and cancellations - not much consolation but you might be entitled to some compensation. You might have to fight it but could be worth it - I ended up taking BA to the small claims court after a cancelled flight from New York, think I got about 600euro compensation from them in the end.... I bloody love a complaint...

janey1234 · 30/10/2012 21:47

Pip - now I do know what a biscuit is. But what I don't understand is when you should use it - have you seen some people just put that without a comment? Seems to happen a lot in AIBU?

Quodlibet · 30/10/2012 21:49

I bloody love a complaint too. The customer relations woman has been spectacularly insensitive to one of the passengers in a wheelchair too - essentially asking them publicly and loudly in front of the whole shushed room what their additional needs were and 'whether they thought they would make it through the night'.ShockShockShock

ZombiesAreClammyDodgers · 30/10/2012 21:51

It was a Gordon brown thing - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8312215.stm though I'm not COMPLETELY sure what it means. I think something like "have a biscuit and shut up"? Not sure.

Pipbin · 30/10/2012 22:02

Quoid according to EU regulation 261/2004 you are entitled to accommodation if the flight is delayed until the day after the flight.

I quote:
Right to care

  1. Where reference is made to this Article, passengers shall be offered free of charge:
(a) (b) (c) meals and refreshments in a reasonable relation to the waiting time; hotel accommodation in cases ? where a stay of one or more nights becomes necessary, or ? where a stay additional to that intended by the passenger becomes necessary; transport between the airport and place of accommodation (hotel or other).

Here is a link to the PDF of the regulation:
eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:046:0001:0007:en:PDF

janey1234 · 30/10/2012 22:09

In addition they are supposed to give you information about the eu law at the time (eg a leaflet) - one of the things I got BA on. Of course, they generally don't want you to be aware of your rights so would rather not.

Similarly try to find out why it's cancelled - if it is indeed mechanical failure you can argue it's their fault for not maintaining the plans properly. That's what I did - and won Smile

V interesting re Gordon brown. Although I do quite fancy a Biscuit now in real life, but don't have any in the house...

Pipbin · 30/10/2012 22:12

I like that you are entitled to access to a fax or telex machine. Demand a telex machine, that'll keep them busy.

janey1234 · 30/10/2012 22:24

What is a telex machine?! What with that and biscuits I feel like I'm learning a lot from you ladies... Or maybe I'm just a thickie...

Pipbin · 30/10/2012 22:31

A telex was like a fax but rather than sending a copy of the document you typed it in at one end and it came out the other, a bit like email but with two typewriter connected with string.
Mainly used in police stations, newspaper offices, fire stations and the like.
I remember seeing one when I was at a BBC local radio station. I used to edit reel to reel tape.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex

I'm off into a corner to feel old now.

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Bunnygirlie · 30/10/2012 22:42

So part from being stuck in an airport how are we all today?

Had a bad case of the green eyed monster today, not only is every stranger in the street either PG or has new baby I also have to cope with seeing one of my closest friends every day ( as I work with her) who is heavily pregnant, was talking to her today and seeing her massive tummy just gave me a huge pang of jealousy :-(

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Pipbin · 30/10/2012 22:56

Other than feeling very old I'm OK thanks Bunny.
I have a dreadful case of green eyedness almost constantly. Every woman out there is either pg or has a baby. In fact I think that all the woman in the world who don't get pg by just looking at a man in a funny way is posting on this forum.

I have AF visiting right now but at least I'm off work and I am lucky to have very light and pain free periods.
Off to the clinic tomorrow.

Quodlibet · 30/10/2012 23:18

Thanks ladies. Luckily with all this time to kill and free internet I've also come across the EU ruling on regulation 261/2004 (Sturgeon v Condor, and Bock v Air France, C-402/07 and C-432/07), which ruled essentially that once a delay is more than 3 hours, it's effectively a cancellation. And that technical/mechanical failure is not 'extraordinary circumstances.'

400 euros please Easyjet.

Off to pursue my right to a Telex now.

Pipbin · 30/10/2012 23:20

But are they going to sort you out with a bed for the night?

Quodlibet · 30/10/2012 23:26

No that's a lost cause. Only another 2hrs 45 mins on this metal chair, after all.

Pipbin · 30/10/2012 23:28

But I understood that if the rescheduled departure date is on a different date to the original date then they had to sort you out with a hotel room?

Quodlibet · 30/10/2012 23:35

Oh I understand that too. But they ain't gonna do it. Nearest hotel is half an hour away apparently. If they had organised it properly from the off then it would have made sense, but they fannied about and then claimed it was too short a time to get us all to a hotel and then back again.

Pipbin · 31/10/2012 00:00

In a way they do kind of have a point. To get you there and back, checked in and then back out would take too long.

ZombiesAreClammyDodgers · 31/10/2012 08:01

quod hope you're almost home.

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Bunnygirlie · 31/10/2012 08:28

TMI ALERT

Having a very odd AF, 2 days of brown spotting, 1 day of proper blood but then nothing overnight, then yesterday only a little bit of blood and again nothing overnight.

Anybody else had anything like this?

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Bunnygirlie · 31/10/2012 08:29

P.s. quod hope you're home!

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Pipbin · 31/10/2012 08:36

I'm assuming you've POAS?
I've found that my periods have got lighter over the past few years. I put it down to having spent so long on a pill where I didn't get any periods.

HazleNutt · 31/10/2012 08:37

Poor Quod! I hate when they do that. Was once stuck at the airport for more than 24H, as the bastards would not just admit that we're so late and wouldn't sent us to a hotel, but kept claiming that the delay is an hour...then another hour..almost there...no, another hour.

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