Jetstar 4-hour delay
We flew Jetstar to Melbourne for our 6-day vacatio n with my sister's family. Her family drove. Unfortunately, this happened: There were repeated announcement of delays. When they announced the delayed time of 5.15pm, I suddenly recalled that there should be some sort of compensation if flight is delayed by 3 or 4 hours. Well, I was hungry and was hoping for a meal voucher haha. A check on Jetstar website confirmed my suspicion: 3-hour delay -> meal voucher. Jetstar, however, was quite slow in arranging the vouchers. Luckily, Canberra airport doesn't have immigration check (but there's custom check to get into the waiting area) and so anyone can go right up to the boarding gate without boarding pass. Hence, I exited the waiting area and went back to the check-in counter to enquire about meal voucher, which was issued within the next 10 minutes. It was AUD 8 per passenger. Compare that with the AUD 20 voucher from Qantas when flight was delayed by a mere 2 hours. Once ...