Can we claim some money back over lost holiday time?

Simon Calder answers your questions on Corfu, strikes in France, damaged passports and tipping culture

Losing 10 hours of time spent in Corfu is ‘absolutely shocking’ (Getty)

Q Our holiday flight from Newcastle to Corfu is now flying two hours later than we planned going out, with the return coming back eight hours earlier on return. That’s 10 hours in total lost. That is after paying over £5,000. Absolutely shocking. Compensation possibly?

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A How maddening. I am fairly sure that what has happened here is that instead of an originally planned Newcastle-based aircraft making the trip for your holiday flights, it will be effectively a Corfu-Newcastle-Corfu rotation that drastically cuts your time on holiday. For example, you might originally have been due to fly out at 9.30am, arriving around 3pm local time in Corfu. The return leg of that flight would leave at around 4pm local time, getting you back at around 5.30pm UK time.