Flight delay - how long for the airline to pay

rarmsden

I was recently delayed over 5 hrs on a recent trip with small plant airlines and they have agreed to pay the compensation for this which is great.
The question I have is that they have said this will take anything up to 20 weeks for them to make the payment into my account which seems rather long.
Is there a time limit on how long an airline has to settle a claim once it has agreed to pay?

JPears

As long a time as you let them. 5 months is ridiculous.
Contact them back and request payment within 4 weeks or you will take legal action for recovery. (as long as you are prepared to take legal action)

rarmsden

Thanks, I've gone back to them so I'll see where this goes.