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Flight delay compensation successes
Have you managed to successfully claim compensation for a flight delay? Please let us know how much you were compensated and how you managed it.
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Flight Delay Compensation Sticky
✈️Here are some threads you might find useful: * FAQ's to flight delay compensation queries * Compensation for delayed flights Discussion Area * Guide to Claiming Flight Delay Compensation * Flight delay compensation, US and Canadian Airlines * Flight delay and cancellation compensation, Ryanair ONLY * Flight delay and…
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Please read before posting! Please post in the existing threads rather than starting a new one!
Please post in the relevant thread for the airline you are claiming for rather than starting a new thread. There is one thread for each of the popular airlines, any others are in "all other EU airlines", "US & Canadian Airlines" or the "Non-EU airlines" thread. If you scroll down or search the forum you will find the…
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Compensation for delayed flights Discussion Area
This discussion relate to the Flight Delay Compensation guide. Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply. If you aren’t sure how it all works, read our New to Forum? Intro Guide.
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EasyJet Flight delay to following day
Hi wondering where I stand with regards to a claim from easyJet. our flight was delayed on Sunday night from CDG to EDI 20 mins before boarding was due to commence. EasyJet staff in the airport were non help whatsoever and couldn’t tell us any info at all including hotels until eventually we were told to Queue at a side…
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Flighright not responding
Hi everyone , I flew with brussels airlines and my flight was delayed 10 months ago by more than three hrs. I used the Flightright site to file my claim and went through the proccess, the last i'v heard from them is that their lawyers have intiated the legal proccess, this was five months ago and i havent heard anything…
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Help - Out of pocket Expenses
Hi our flights through Wizz Air direct got cancelled as the flight took off, had to be diverted back and then got cancelled. The return was also refunded when Wizz Air returned our payment because no alternatives could be found. What I am now trying to work out is along side any compensation what happens to the hotel…
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Possible scam email
I recently applied for compensation with Jet2.com and received the email below. As there’s nobody to ring from Jet2 and no reply to email I thought I’d check on here. Email reads: From: eu261claims@jet2.com Jet2/1171388 Dear Mr ****** Thank you for your correspondence. We’re very sorry for the disruption to your flight.…
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Ryanair delay voucher - £3
Opinions welcome on the "reasonableness" of Ryanair's offering. I was on a flight a couple of weeks ago Stansted-Zagreb that was delayed from 21:20 to 00:30 due to a technical difficulty. As it touched down minutes before a 3 hour delay, the only right to refreshment under EU261 was "meals and refreshment vouchers in…
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Does EU261 cover extra costs of rebooking ?
KLM bounced us off an overbooked flight to Japan from a uk regional airport. there was no acceptable alternative flight so we cancelled and KLM immediately refunded original ticket cost. We were able to rebook with another carrier but from Heathrow. KLM have paid the EU261 compensation of £520 each. But are refusing to pay…
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Flight Cancellation
I would like to inquire about my case with Pegasus Airlines. I had a connecting flight from Chisinau to Erbil with a transit in Istanbul Sabiha on 29/08/2025. The first segment was from Chisinau to Istanbul. Unfortunately, I could not travel to Moldova due to a visa issue. On 29/08/2025, I was already in Istanbul and went…
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Help - EasyJet cancelled then reinstated flights
I'm hoping the experience in this group might be able to guide us on what we can do here... I was in the Berlin airport drone mess on Friday 31st October and easyJet had to cancel our 21.35 flight to Manchester at the last minute (literally at 21.35). After we got the cancellation email from easyJet, the options they gave…
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Compensation for missed connection in EU
Hi All, Has anyone have any experience of dealing with Iberia. I'm wondering if it's worth claiming. I had a through ticket with Iberia from Jerez via Madrid to London on 31.10.2025. The flight was delayed at Jerez and arrived in Madrid nearly 2.5 hours late, so I missed my connection to London. Iberia supplied a hotel and…
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Easy Jet deny compensation
I recently had a flight back from malaga to bristol , on arrival at the airport the ap said I could get a voucher for food as the flight was delayed by 12 hours , into the next day . No actual notification of delay or option to communicate . I quickly managed to book a jet2 flight that left 20 minutes earlier and made it…
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Flight delay and cancellation compensation, Ryanair ONLY
MoneySavingExpert Insert October 2017: This discussion thread is linked to from our Flight Delays Compensation guide. Please read that for full help. You might also like to read our Ryanair wrongly denies passenger compensation for cancelled flight news story Other related MSE Guides: 20 Ryanair Tricks
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Ryanair delayed flight Expenses not refunded
On Tuesday 9th Sept our 23.35pm flights from Gdansk was delayed till 13:00 on Wed 10th Sept. The single women on the desk who was left to tell us this news at 01:00 said it was because crew hours had expired and we would be going back the following day. The plane had been sat on the run way waiting to load and take us…
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BA Flight 24 and 2.5 hour delay
Hi our flight was due to depart from islamabad to gatwick 00:35am on saturday 1st november.Been delayed to 00:35 sunday 2nd November. Our flight BA2161 from gatwick to islamabad on 17/10/2025 was also delayed for 2 hours 38 minutes. It was a return ticket and can we claim compensation twice on the same ticket? Going 2 hour…
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AerLingus Delays
This is my first time on this forum in hope someone might be able to offer advice. Briefly we were due to fly from Dublin on 25 September at 15.45 but due to a security alert the airport was closed down for two hours. After checking in were were advised to go to the departure gate. There were no Aerlingus staff to answer…
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Flight cancellation compensation - Lufthansa / Etihad airways
Hello, I booked a flight with Lufthansa from Manchester to Dubai, with a connecting flight via Munich, Germany. When we arrived in Munich, we found out our flight from Munich to Dubai was cancelled. We were put on a replacement flight with Etihad Airways from Munich to Abu Dhabi. And from Abu Dhabi, we were advised to get…
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Covid Flight Refund Discussion - Too Late?
This is an old one from 2020/2021 but I am wondering if there is still a remedy. A few years back a return flight ticket from the U.K. to Turkey was bought from Lufthansa via Germany - This was a flight only booking direct from the airline. This was a single UK>Turkey ticket. While the outbound flight went without a hitch,…
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Claiming for unsafe accommodation during flight delay iberia
Hi, I recently flew to fuerteventura from Heathrow via madrid. My first flight was delayed and i missed the connection. (No refreshment vouchers were offered or explanations given for the over 3 hour delay) I had the aena hidden disabilities badge as I suffer from ptsd, which I disclosed to the iberia rep at Madrid. She…
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Aviation ADR
https://dashboard.aviationadr.eu/login.php I put in a dispute with Ryanair using this service over a year ago. Was put into the adjudication phase five months ago. Is only meant to take three to reach a decision, when at this stage. Does anyone have any experience with how long they actually take over the stated timeframe?
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UK261 compensation delays - Eastern Airways
Hi We had a cancelled flight (after 3+ hours of waiting at Gatwick) to Newquay with Eastern Airways back in March. I raised a request for compensation, and they quickly came back confirming this was due and would be paid in 6-8 weeks time. Nothing happened, so chased up, to be told they had further delays and now likely…
