My advice for David Thorpe (Times Online February 16) is to demand compensation and don't give up. Our route - Frankfurt Hahn to Marrakech - was abandoned last October and we were notified a week before we left (we had paid for this non-existent flight four months before). . We needed to get there as we had already prepaid expensive hotels. It was unbelievably difficult to find alternative flights as it was half-term week. To say we were incredibly inconvenienced is an understatement, not to mention the extra expense. However, yesterday we were finally awarded significant compensation from Ryanair - the maximum we were allowed under the new EU legislation. They took no notice of my first registered letter, but paid up after I took our case to the German civil aviation authority responsible for ensuring airlines abide by EU law.

Carolyn Garratt, Luxembourg,