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Flight delay compensation

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Hi All. I am about to claim some compensation for a cancelled flight on the 25/6/18 my return journey of my holiday from Prague, when I remembered that the outward journey on 15/6/18 was delayed. We arrived at our final destination 5hrs late but I'm not sure how late our actual Airport (Budapest) arrival was. I'm pretty…
MSE News: Ryanair to speed up paying valid claims
Budget airline Ryanair has pledged to pay flight delay compensation to customers within 10 days, rather than its current 28 day target...Read the full story: 'Ryanair to speed up paying 'valid' flight delay claims' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply.
Claudia Wegener v Royal Air Maroc SA
(Apologies if this has already been reported, but I could not find any references to it when I searched this board.) European Court of Justice, C-537/17 On 31 May 2018 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a decision regarding the scope of Article 3(1)(a) of EC Regulation 261/2004. The Facts Claudia Wegener booked a…
Primera Delayed Flight due to Flight colliding with another plane
Hello Martin Lewis, Myself and my friends recently booked a holiday via ‘On the Beach’. Going was great, everything was as it should be, however upon travelling home, things went very wrong. (please see e-mails of what happened below). The complaint we followed as per the flight operator, however (as per the below e-mails,…
Missed transfer bus to hotel
Hi, I hope this is the right thread to join, I can't find this precise topic. My daughter and friend booked package to Spain last week. The flight to Barcelona was delayed 2hours 40min, so no compensation for that but can they claim €140 taxi they had to take in middle of night as desk shut and when they phoned they were…
Royal Jordanian - Any successes?
Hi - I've contacted both RJ and CAA as on initial contact RJ did not respond to our email. Our flight for 4 people was delayed for 5+ hours for a technical fault meaning we are eligible for over £2k compensation. However RJ are not on the resolver tool and I've searched this site and they have not come up at all. I just…
Blue Air - untraceable compensation
Hi all, Not sure if anyone has faced this scenario before. After a significant delay to our return flight Milan to Liverpool in Oct 2017, I claimed for compensation under the EU rules. After initially denying & then requesting lots of information repeatedly, Blue Air finally agreed to compensate me 250 Euros per passenger…
Novair claim deny, external engine fault. Safety issue. Smells like bs
Hi does this smell like bs? I'm new to all of this and appreciate any help I can get. Regards We refer to your trip with booking number 180307-4930-00 and will with this regret that you got a dull end to your holiday due to flight delay on Novair's route NVR 324 from Zakynthos to Oslo. Ordinary departure time from…
Post in relevant airline, not your own
Like is says above, please DO NOT post your own personal thread, use the relevant airline thread. You may have to scroll down a page or 2 to find it as so many people clutter up this board with their own threads.
Compensation from Airport regarding a flight delay
The airline I'm claiming compensation from tells me the delay was due to a refuelling issue at Stansted airport. Does anyone know if there's a way to claim against the Airport?
Have I got a right to compensation?
I took a flight from London Heathrow to Manila back in February via Kuwait. The flight was due to have a layover in Kuwait of around an hour, before flying to Manila. There was a slight delay at Heathrow, but when I arrived in Kuwait we were delayed by 7 hours. I did not miss my connection, but the connection was delayed.…
Kiev flights cancelled
Hi there -I’m new to this site & looking for advice please. Son and husband were booked to go to Kiev for Champions League final flying out from Liverpool on 26th May returning next day. Flights were £950 return each. They both had match tickets. They were told by text on afternoon of Thursday 24th that flight was…
Urgent help needed for changing dates on a holiday
Hi all, Hope you are all good?! So this Tuesday I was meant to be travelling to Barcelona for four days, three nights with my partner for her 30th birthday. I booked my hotel, flights, everything through lastminute.com. Two to three weeks ago my partner got some upsetting news from the hospital that required to come in for…
Manchester to heraklion delay - 30 may 2018
Can anybody advise how to check actual departure and arrival times of a delayed flight MT1124 to Heraklion from Manchester on 30.5.18. We had a 3+ hours delay in departing from Manchester, we sat on the plane for over an hour in stifling heat. The cabin crew were on board and had to open the aircraft doors as people were…
Part of Multi Stop booking Cancelled
Hi, I'm in a bit of a unique situation. In January I booked flights, for myself and my family, directly with BA: Heathrow to Cape Town - 4 days in Cape Town Cape Town to Gaborone - 10 days in Gabs Gaborone to Heathrow with a change in Johannesburg The Heathrow/Cape Town flight and the Johannesburg/Heathrow flights are…
Trauma at Manchester airpoort
On the 29th May 2018 my husband and i were at Manchester airport Terminal 2 gate 28 waiting to board our flight with Tui to Palma before boarding the Marrella Dream for a 2 week cruise. Just as my husband and I arrived at the desk there was an extremely loud 'Bang' then a small delay before the whole building shook as if…
Flight Cancelled - Looking for advice
Hello I went skiing in April to Val Thorens, on my way out Heathrow to Geneva my flight was delayed by a over an hour eventually got on it, then delayed on the runway because of computer issues on the aircraft eventually an engineer came on board and fixed it. Got in the air just out of london air space and it had a…
Flight delay compensation
Hi, Not sure if anyone can help me but if you can TYIA I just returned from Tenerife and our flight was cancelled on Fri 1st June 2018. We were took back to a hotel overnight and told our flight would depart Sat 02nd June 2018. Arrived at the airport the next day, handed over our passports and were told there no more…

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