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    Snow travel chaos: Your rights for compensation

    He’ll have the runway cleared in no time. (Sean O’Neill) Heavy snowfall forced airlines to cancel about 8,200 flights in the past week. Most of the stranded passengers have since been rebooked and flown to their destinations. If you were a flier whose plane was delayed or cancelled, you may be furious at the additional expenses you faced. Here are a few thoughts on how fliers can recoup costs that they may have lost during Snowmageddon. No one should have paid a ticket change fee Most airlines waived their customary fees for changing a ticket during the storm, but in the scrum, you may have accidentally been billed anyway. This…