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I was on a 4 hour delayed transatlantic flight recently - which meant EU legislated delay compensation. It worked out as €600 per person - more than we paid for

I was on a 4 hour delayed transatlantic flight recently - which meant EU legislated delay compensation. It worked out as €600 per person - more than we paid for the return trip. In a 200 seat aircraft that's something like €120,000 - multiply that by 10 hours of delayed aircraft departures and the cost to the airline is huge! I can see why they'd want to pass that on to someone if they could.

IceWreck 4y ago
Wait what ? I was delayed by 24 hours and missed out on connecting flights because of an Aer Lingus server infrastructure issue which caused them to cancel all flights for that day. They rebooked my flights but I was paid 100 EUR, which was barely enough to cover the cost of extra taxis, meals and stay for that night. I'm not an EU citizen so I'm not sure how that affected my compensation.
- ReaLNero 4y ago
  The compensation applies to all flights to and/or from the EU, regardless of citizenship. You should look into filing a claim, I've heard it's not very time-intensive. There's even companies that take care of filing for you for a fee. The fee is taken out of the claim compensation, no upfront costs!
- londons_explore 4y ago
  They try and fob you off with a little compensation (ie. €100) in the hope that that makes you not claim what the law says you're entitled to.
- nixass 4y ago
  > Wait what? https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/air/index_en.htm https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...