Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
My strong instinct is no. To qualify for a refund, your father would have had to be directly affected by such an action. Quite surely, from the negative press received from the event, and the CTA ruling, Air Transat would not do that again. Air Transat may choose to provide a refund for customer goodwill purposes, but (pending answers from our lawyer friends) I don't believe it is obliged to provide a refund here. To escape the contract, your father would have to demonstrate breach of the transportation contract - and that hasn't occurred here. If your father's ticket is subject to some refund terms by default, they will still apply, but that likely would not include a full refund.
Full answer by Jim MacKenzie: https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/112784 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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