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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

Flight cancelled? You deserve an automatic refund, say MPs

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The Transport Select Committee has called for tougher action against airlines that are slow in paying refunds – and better protection for passengers when carriers go bust.

In its latest report, UK aviation: reform for take-off, the committee’s MPs called on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to “utilise its existing powers to challenge businesses and to pursue enforcement orders from the courts to tackle infringements of consumer rights in relation to refunds”.

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