{"id":120001,"date":"2024-09-04T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/flight-diversion-passenger-rights-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:00:12","slug":"when-flights-are-diverted-what-are-passengers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=120001","title":{"rendered":"When Flights Are Diverted: What Are Passengers&#8217; Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    What are the passenger&#8217;s rights when a flight is <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/flight-diversion\/\">diverted<\/a>? The answer depends on various factors, such as whether the flight is domestic or international. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/eu261\/\">the European Union&#8217;s regulation EU261 provides its own compensation scheme<\/a> for diverted, canceled, and delayed flights. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dot-automatic-refunds-canceled-flights\/\">rules and regulations in the United States for diverted flights changed for passengers&#8217; benefit in April 2024<\/a> as the Department of Transportation issued new rules for airlines. Even so, passenger entitlements for diverted flights still hinge somewhat on individual airlines&#8217; policies.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers enjoy more rights after rule changes in April and are entitled to refunds and, normally, meals and accommodation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1741,1358,567,613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-diversions","category-flight-diversion","category-guides","category-passenger-experience"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120002,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120001\/revisions\/120002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}