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Swiss Air Investigation (Dec 2025): Swiss Air is currently under investigation by AirlineComplaints.org for serious violations of passenger rights including but not limited to abandoning passengers at foreign airports; causing negligent delays that result in missed critical connections, particularly impacting travelers attending funerals; providing dishonest assurances through flight staff; failing to manage visa-related issues, leaving travelers stranded in untenable legal situations abroad; mishandling luggage containing essential medications; providing inadequate support for grieving passengers; refusing to offer readily available alternative flights; ineffective communication; causing emotional distress to affected passengers; poor coordination with partner airlines; systemic breakdowns in global phone-based customer support; technical failures on their lost luggage website; ignoring customer complaints; and breaching their fundamental duty of care to passengers.

Swiss Air Investigation Update (Feb 2026): Due to observed Swiss Air behavior, this investigation is escalating for additional serious violations of passenger rights including but not limited to issuing token and bad-faith refunds that bear no reasonable relation to the actual value of unused ticket segments; refusing to reimburse documented replacement transportation costs incurred as a direct result of their operational failures; misrepresenting nominal payments as meaningful refunds; failing to honor explicit written commitments to reimburse out-of-pocket expenses; forcing bereaved passengers to retrieve delayed baggage at their own expense despite being provided with a delivery address; shifting additional financial burdens onto passengers for fuel and transport required to recover mishandled luggage; attempting to substitute legally owed cash compensation with restrictive “goodwill” vouchers; implying that such vouchers constitute adequate settlement of unresolved claims; failing to provide transparent refund calculations or justification for nominal reimbursement amounts; and demonstrating bad-faith escalation handling through repetitive, non-authoritative, template-based responses that avoid substantive resolution.

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Feb 14, 2012, 7:46 PM

The_Judge

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Don't bow, it makes me blush. I will concede that IATA probably doesn't police MCT's. You highlighted the word minimum too. That's what their called, MINIMUM connecting times. They're not called intermediate connecting times or the longest connecting times possible.

Anyway, if you read this document I linked and I think you did, the people that set these times are not JUST airlines, they are airport authorities also. And thetr is a vote, it's not just one person or airline deciding this and there are a tremendous amount of factors that go into the time. I read other documents, as well and will be happy to link those if you desire.

I may have jumped the gun a bit in saying that it's not the airline's responsibility but people have to take a personal responsibility for things too. This world has turned into a blame the other guy world and that is a major problem, imo.

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