New regulations in the EU, Canada, and around
the world are focusing on passenger rights to protect them from airline
mismanagement and flight delays. Find out if you’re eligible for flight
compensation and where to get help receiving it.
In order to find out if you’re eligible for
compensation, ask yourself the following;
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Have you had a flight delayed for more
than 3 hours?
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Was your flight canceled in under
14 days before the scheduled departure?
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Did you miss a connecting flight
due to a late arrival?
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Were you denied boarding a direct
or connecting flight in Europe?
If you answered “yes” to any of the questions
above and it relates to a flight you took in the last six years --you’re likely eligible to receive money from your
airline as compensation.
There are a lot of reasons why flights are
delayed --many of them fall under the guidelines above, some do not. Fill out this questionnaire to find out if
you’re eligible for flight compensation.
Of all the reasons why flights can be delayed,
the following are the most common;
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Overbooked flight
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Plane maintenance
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Staff availability
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Runway congestion
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Cargo loading time
How much flight compensation you’re eligible
for will depend on a few variables, like how much of a delay you had to endure
and how long your flight was.
The added icing on the cake is that you can be
retroactively compensated for delays going back up to six full years.
Flight delays that are longer than three hours
are eligible for the following flight compensation in the EU:
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€600 if the delay exceeds 4 hours and 3,500 km
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€400 if flight distance is between 1,500 km
– 3,500 km
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€250 if flight distance is 1,500 km or
under
Similar flight compensation rules are in
effect in numerous countries around the world, so be sure to check out this questionnaire just in case.
Bad weather, IT issues, security threats, and
employee strikes are all legitimate reasons for an airline to cancel a flight
--but it doesn’t mean they won’t have to compensate passengers for the
inconvenience.
In some cases, an airline may even just pull
an entire plane out of circulation in order to make up for previous delays and
prevent future ones.
Pulling a flight is a financial decision that
isn’t common, but after a careful cost/benefit analysis --screwing over a
single flight may be cheaper for the company than paying flight compensation to
thousands of passengers for cumulative delays.
If you’ve experienced a flight cancellation
over the last six years and you want to figure out whether or not you’re
eligible for compensation, fill out this questionnaire.
This one is a little tricky, so we’d like to
expand on it a little.
Under the law, ‘extraordinary circumstances’
will give airlines a pass for both delays and cancellations, so they’ll often
claim this as a reason to get around their responsibility --even when your
delay or cancellation doesn’t technically meet the legal criteria to get them
off the hook. Semantics.
Simply put, it’s a blanket statement often
used by airlines to lead passengers to believe that they aren’t eligible for
compensation when in fact they may be.
If your airline cites extraordinary
circumstances --don’t take it sitting down. Fill out this questionnaire to find out if you’ve got a shot at flight
compensation.
Now more than ever, passengers are being
empowered by air travel regulations that can help make a bad experience with an
airline pay off.
Whether you’re flying to, from, or taking a
connecting flight in Europe, Canada, and other countries, you have new
protections --with more countries rolling them out as we speak.
Airlines aren’t making it easy for passengers
to claim flight compensation --the process is mired with convenient
bureaucracy, form letters, jargon, and poor communication.
To speed up the process you may want to lawyer
up. Click2Refund will take on airlines on your behalf, and only charge a small
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Every claimed flight compensation? What was that like? Let everyone know in the comments.