What Options Available If Flights Are Cancelled At Short Notice.

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So we keep hearing about the chaos of cancelled flights, before arrival at the airport and even many whilst at the airport and even when passengers have boarded and then the flight is cancelled.
I have summer flights coming up and would like to be prepared / know my options before arriving at the airport.
EasyJet flights only are what I have booked, no holiday or accommodation booked with them.
What are my rights / options if my flights are cancelled.
Obviously many people use easyjet for what the company was originally designed for, cheap flights to a destination.
Under these circumstances many of us book separate hotel accommodation.
Can I claim against easyJet for the loss of any nights accommodation I have already paid for should I not be able to get to the destination / pre-booked accommodation, or does this claim have to come against my own travel insurance.
Can I claim against easyJet for additional flights / methods of travel to my destination should they cancel flights at such short notice.
Does it depend on how much notice they give of cancellation.

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Official information from the Civil Aviation Authority:
https://www.caa.co.uk/passengers/resolving-travel-problems/delays-and-cancellations/

>>> Can I claim against easyJet for the loss of any nights accommodation I have already paid for should I not be able to get to the destination / pre-booked accommodation

No. Just as a railway company doesn't have to pay you anything if, through the late-running or cancellation of a train, you miss the concert that you'd paid mega-bucks to attend, the Ts & Cs of airline travel excludes 'consequential losses' when things go wrong.


>>> Can I claim against easyJet for additional flights / methods of travel to my destination should they cancel flights at such short notice.
Does it depend on how much notice they give of cancellation.

See the end bit of the 'Cancellations' section from my CAA link above.