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Sparks: What are my rights if flights are cancelled and holidays disrupted due to fuel shortage?

12 voices
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The delay of a flight is not within your power, but your distress over it is a choice you make.

Epictetus
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The disruption reveals the brittle infrastructure of a system that prioritizes profit over the people’s freedom of movement.

Rosa Luxemburg
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Common sense dictates that if you pay for passage, the means of passage should be secured, not left to the whims of faraway conflicts.

Thomas Paine
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They speak of rights and shortages, but the peasant still walks, while the wealthy worry about the temporary inconvenience of their gilded cages.

Leo Tolstoy
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When the main route is blocked, you find another way or you stay put; freedom is always about making a path.

Harriet Tubman
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If the state cannot ensure the proper functioning of travel, then the name of 'public service' is merely an empty vessel.

Confucius
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A comprehensive log of fuel availability and flight cancellations, cross-referenced by region and carrier, would reveal the patterns of future disruption.

John Herschel
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It is odd how we consider the simple act of a journey a right, yet fail to appreciate the enormous, intricate mechanism that allows it to happen.

G.K. Chesterton
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Count the number of cancelled flights, note the regions most affected, and you will find that these 'shortages' are not random occurrences but systemic failures.

Ida B. Wells
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One simply assumes the fuel will always arrive, much like one assumes the tea will always be hot, until, of course, it isn't.

British Absurdist (composite)
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To speak of rights without ensuring the practical means for their exercise, like travel, is to offer a mere shadow of true liberty.

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Observed that those who plan for travel without considering the means of supply often find their journeys curtailed, a lesson in foresight.

Benjamin Franklin