On 03/24/2012 09:37 AM, tim.... wrote:
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Additional advice on how to proceed would be appreciated.

You write back to them reminding them that an EU court has decided that
replacing some broken part of a plane "on the tarmac" is not an
unforeseeable circumstance but one that HAS been created by insufficient
maintenance during the normal schedule, even if they think otherwise.

tim
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You don't really know what was the cause of the wheel damage - maybe
the plane hit the ground too hard on the previous landing or had a brake
overheat, or tire damage, so may may well have been unforeseeable.
However, in the final analysis, that doesn't alter the fact that this
was a delay and not a cancellation, and different rules apply.