No Show : According to Business dictionary :
1.Person who
fails to attend a meeting he was supposed to, or who buys a ticket to a public
performance (a concert, for example) but does not use it.
2.Passenger
who neither cancels his or her reservation nor shows up for the flight. The
airline will cancel his or her all other reservations (such as for connecting
flights, if any) if not otherwise notified, and usually will not refund any
portion of the ticket price.
3.Shipper who
fails to deliver a booked shipment to the carrier. He or she may still have to
pay the full freight.
4.Traveler who
fails to show up for a reserved room without notifying the hotel of the
cancellation. He or she is usually charged for one night's room charges.
With some Airlines,
‘no-show’ is a clause that means that a user not showing up for the outbound
flight will be considered a no-show, and all the connecting flights associated
with this one, even a return flight, will be cancelled and no refund will
apply. While it is not clear if carriers should refund users regarding
navigation taxes (related to the airline operation and to the governments, which
do not appear on a ticket), other expenses, like security, air passenger duty,
and noise/environmental can all be refunded, as all these incurred only when a
person turns-up. This clause has raised
much concern among users, and court rulings have converged to the conclusion that "carriers cannot
force passengers to fly".
People
organise birthday parties for their kids and do call – classmates, those in the
apartment, relatives, friends and more.
After you read this article in Daily Mail of what happened at Decon, you
may tend to become nervous.
Five year old Alex
Nash missed ski slope party and went to see grandparents instead. Weeks later
his shocked father Derek found 'no show fee' in school bag. It had been put there after being handed to a
teacher by the boy's mother. The initial
reaction of Mr Nash, 45, from Torpoint, Cornwall, was that it was a joke. But when he did not pay, he has been threatened
with small claims court'
In a
strange incident posted, a five-year-old
boy who missed a friend's birthday party has been invoiced £15.95 - by the
host's mother. Derek Nash took his son Alex to see his
grandparents instead of turning up to a friend's birthday party - and was
handed an invoice for £15.95. The bill was given to the five-year-old via a
teacher; the ski slope involved said it
was nothing to do with them. 'We don't have any such things as no-show fees',
said the manager. But the birthday boy's
mother - former police employee Julie Lawrence, who organised the party with
her partner Colin, believed to be a stage rigger - said she had no regrets.
'All details were
on the party invite,' she said in a short statement. 'They had every detail
needed to contact me.' Mr Nash had
confirmed Alex would attend the 'slide and ride' party before Christmas at the
Plymouth Ski Slope and Snowboard Centre. Costing £15.95 a head, it would have
included half an hour on a snow tubing run, three toboggan rides, a hot meal,
ice cream, jelly and balloons. But he then realised he had already arranged for
their daughter to go on a day trip with her grandparents. Without a contact
number or e-mail address for the friend's mother, he claimed, he had no choice
but to withdraw Alex from the party and apologize when school resumed on
January 6.
Without warning,
the bill was found in Alex's bag a week later.
Mr Nash, a delivery driver is quoted as saying that he talked to quite a
people on that and they were all incredulous of such a thing happening. The School’s Headteacher was apologetic that
such a cover had been passed on by a teacher and said that it was a breach of
protocol. Mr Nash confronted the host's mother, who he said has threatened to
take the case to a small claims court. The report concludes stating that the host's mother could have little luck getting
back the £15.95 in court - where the administration fee to make a claim is £25.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar.
20th Jan 2015.
