Having had their flight cancelled, the quartet reached Dublin by foot, train, boat and mini-bus.
Extra compensation is available if a flight is cancelled or delayed and it is the airline's fault.
Ryan Byrne was due to fly from Londonderry to Liverpool for a family wedding, but his flight was cancelled.
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Just following the departure of Leo and Scott who were flying on to Tampa for a subsequent engagement, my flight was cancelled.
On Thursday, it was revealed County had to abandon their training camp trip to Spain after their flight was cancelled because of concerns about volcanic ash.
Meg Turner, from Muswell Hill, said her husband's plane for Singapore had been on the runway for five hours on Saturday night, before the flight was cancelled and he returned home.
Commenting on the ANA flight, a spokesman at Yamaguchi Ube airport in western Japan said the flight was cancelled because brake parts from the rear left undercarriage needed to be replaced.
If a flight is cancelled, or delayed for more than five hours, in Europe, there are strict European rules in place, which mean that the airline is obliged to provide assistance at the airport.
The EU regulation on passenger rights "does not provide for any limitation, either temporal or monetary, of the obligation to provide care to passengers whose flight is cancelled due to extraordinary circumstances", the ECJ said.
Two days ago I was in San Diego, desperately trying to figure out a way to get to home to the Northeast after my flight was cancelled (quite prematurely) in advance of Hurricane Sandy reaching the east coast.
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Thus a travel agency may guarantee the price of a holiday, but with the proviso that the charter flight can be cancelled if not enough people book.
But, after hours of delays, the flight was eventually cancelled.
If the delay is for five hours or more, passengers are also entitled to a refund of their ticket with a free flight back to the initial point of departure if this is relevant (for example, if a connecting flight has been cancelled).
East Midlands Airport cancelled a flight to Greece on Friday morning and sent the passengers home.
Passengers on one cancelled Ryanair flight were told their baggage would be left outside the terminus.
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If you have been planning a trip to Egypt, your flight will probably be cancelled, if it has not been already.
They share reservation systems so that if a flight is delayed or cancelled passengers can safely rebook on another (yes competitive) airline.
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At the same time, if an American Airlines flight departing London is cancelled, the US-based carrier must offer compensation to passengers according to EU rules.
New York screenings of several films, including Denzel Washington's Flight, have also been cancelled.
Indeed, political upheavals saw space-flight ambitions revived, then cancelled, twice during the 1970s.
My 10:54pm flight to San Francisco was cancelled at the last minute.
The International Airport said a flight to Bristol had been cancelled and all other departures to the rest of the UK were running with slight delays.
Japan's All Nippon Airways, meanwhile, said it cancelled a domestic flight to Tokyo on Wednesday after a computer wrongly indicated there was a problem with the Boeing 787's brakes.
In addition, a domestic ANL flight from Yamaguchi to Tokyo was cancelled because a computer erroneously indicated a brake problem.
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In the latest incident, Japan's All Nippon Airways cancelled a domestic 787 flight from Yamaguchi to Tokyo on Wednesday because of a brake problem.
My return flight from Hamburg to Manchester was cancelled on Thursday.
At one point, police were called to calm angry passengers whose flight to the Dominican Republic had been cancelled.
On Tuesday, Japan Airlines cancelled a Boston to Tokyo flight after about 40 gallons (151 litres) of fuel spilled.
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