Flight Delayed Due To Bird Strike, You Can Now Get Compensation

Manchester county court yesterday brought good news for air passengers who were fighting over flight delay compensation due to bird strike.

The court mentioned bird strike is unusual but not extraordinary and ordered Thomas cook to pay compensation to Timothy Ash and four others passengers around £310 each.

Mr. Ash who was in the flight from Antalya to Manchester delayed by 5 hours in August 2011.

In making yesterday’s ruling, the judge said: “For my part I observe that the word used is ‘extraordinary’ rather than ‘unexpected’, ‘unforeseeable’, ‘unusual’ or even ‘rare’. ‘Extraordinary’, to me, connotes something beyond unusual. A motorway collision between two cars on a motorway is unusual but not extraordinary, whereas a motorway collision between a car, and say, a horse would be extraordinary.”

“Bird strikes happen every day, in fact many times a day, and would hardly be worthy of comment but for the delay which they cause. They do not fall within the same category as a motorway collision between a car and my previous example of a horse, which would be extraordinary, for the simple reason that our skies are populated with birds, whereas our roads are not populated with horses.” He added.

Passengers now have opportunity to claim for compensation if s/he has experienced delays or cancellations due to bird strike. Monitor compensation value with www.tripmole.com for free and start your claim.