General complaint handling procedure1. Acknowledgement of receipt within 2 weeks and first analysis/filtering.2. Assessment whether similar complaints were received on that particular case.3. Case submission to the airline requiring reply within 6 weeks from the date of receipt. If no reply isreceived from the airline, send a reminder to the airline adding an additional delay of 2 weeks (NEB toupdate the passenger).4.1. In case of an airline reply: assessment on the basis of evidence received by all parties, followed byindependent ruling communicated to complainant and airline.4.2. In case of no reply: assessment and action on the basis of the passenger complaint.5. Internal NEB examination of possible repetitive incidents with particular airline.6. In cases of extraordinary circumstances:6.1. If information provided by airlines is of a coherent and detailed character, NEB are left with amargin of flexibility and can apply a system of random checks, respecting the principle ofproportionality.6.2. If information is only provided in a generalised manner not allowing NEB to draw soundjudgements, each incident has to be followed up on individual case-by-case assessment requestingfor example, as matter of proof, logbooks, incident reports, maintenance manuals etc.7. Registration in local database.8. Complaint handling procedure to take a maximum of:· 3 - 4 months for clear cases;· 6 months for complex cases;· longer than 6 months for cases that are involving legal proceedings.Klicka för att utvidga...