London - If punctuality is your thing, this is not the journey for you.
A budget airline’s mid-afternoon flight from Luton to Budapest has been late every day for almost ten months.
The last time Wizz Air’s W62206 departed on time was June 1, 2013. That equates to 293 consecutive late departures, according to flight data and compensation specialists EUclaim.
Depending on the day, the three-hour-25-minute flight is scheduled to leave at 2.20pm or 2.25pm. But the EUclaim report states: “Making the 927-mile journey every day except Christmas Day, the late-running A320 plane has seen passengers delayed anywhere between two minutes and 12 hours and 18 minutes.
“On one occasion it was cancelled altogether. The daily delays add up to over 176 hours of waiting for unlucky passengers.”
Wizz Air insisted its punctuality is much better than claimed when measured against the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s definition of “on time”, which includes flights leaving up to 15 minutes after the scheduled departure.
But 15 passengers from the late flights have already approached law firm Bott & Co. to represent them against the airline and are in line to receive £215 (about R30o)each.
EU regulations entitle travellers to compensation of up to £520 if their flight is delayed by more than three hours or cancelled. - Daily Mail