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Airline compensation: We help you make a claim

Does the airline owe you compensation? Here’s how EU airlines handle compensation and refund claims. If you’ve had a cancelled, overbooked, or delayed flight in the last three years, you may be entitled to compensation from your airline. You can receive up to €600 in compensation per person (minus commission fee). No matter how expensive your ticket was. Check your claim now with our free compensation calculator in two minutes.

How can I claim for compensation or a refund from the airline?

    • Please put it in writing: Ask the airlines to confirm the reason for the flight problem in writing.

    • Collect evidence: Keep photos and receipts of your expenses, tickets, and vouchers.

    • Insist: Insist on airline utilities at the airport.

    • Exchange contact information with other passengers. This way you have witnesses and can help each other enforce your refund or compensation.

Airline Compensation: How to Claim What You’re Owed

    • Flight cancellation or rebooking: compensation in case of short-term flight cancellation, ticket reimbursement also possible

    • Overbooking: compensation

    • Missed connection: compensation

    • Compensation claim: According to the EU Passenger Rights Regulation, between 250 and 600 € per person

    • Amount of compensation independent of the ticket price

    • Right to compensation and ticket reimbursement, valid for 3 years

Check your claim right now

Use our free compensation calculator and instruct Flightright to enforce your compensation or ticket refund from your airlines.

Your air passenger rights at a glance – the most frequently asked questions

EU Regulation 261/2004 Protects Air Passengers

In the event of cancellation, delay, overbooking and missed connections, passengers are entitled to compensation or ticket reimbursement under the EU Passenger Rights Regulation.