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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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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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Cancelled flight due to weather
I was due to fly from Heathrow to Inverness but the flight got cancelled due to weather, they could not offer a flight the following day as it was fully booked therefore had to accept the refund as I had to get back to my work. I managed to fly from Luton later the same day with easyJet and landed in Inverness. Therefore…
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Return flight to LHR from Washington DCA
Hi, After some advice please. Returned from Washington DC earlier this week to Heathrow. All our flights were booked via Virgin. Our original return was booked to fly from Washington DCA to Boston and then from BOS to LHR. The first trip was operated by Republic Airline and the second by Virgin. We had a message from…
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Ryanair delay compensation
On a recent flight from Málaga to Belfast on the 3rd of October 2025, the flight was due to leave at 9.50pm which was delayed until 7.00am on the 4th. The problem was not due to storm Amy it was due to staff being over their flight hours as was explained by the captain who had told us that the staff were approaching their…
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Norse Atlantic
Does anyone know a no win no fee company that definitely handles claims against this airline?
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KLM problem on prior flight
Flight from Oslo to Amsterdam was delayed due to a problem on an earlier flight that day. Apparently there was a bird strike on an earlier flight TO AMS. However decided to continue with the flight AMS -> OSL, and then separately fly an engineer from the base in AMS to OSL to look at the airplane. I know ordinarily a bird…
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Ryanair - Refusing to refund my expenses when flight delayed by nearly 2 days
Hi, I am hoping someone can help as Ryanair are refusing the claim we have made. Background: Our flight (Me, my wife and two friends) from Porto to Leeds was cancelled at the last minute on the 3rd of July due to French Air strikes. We then had to que for Ryan Air customer services for 5 hours, we finally got seen at 11pm.…
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Delayed Singapore Airline Flight for 36 hours.....
We were booked on the Manchester to Singapore flight 10.25am, with final destination being Penang. We boarded the plane, but they delayed the take off as they said they had to do Airbus checks due to the aircraft going through bad turbulence on the incoming flight that morning. These checks continued to take place whilst…
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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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Jet2 refusing flight delay compensation June 2024
we were delayed 13 hours on a jet2 flight from Palma, Majorca to Newcastle on 28th June 2024. I submitted a claim and it was refused, jet2 claimed it was due to extraordinary circumstances on a flight 2 flights before ours. I challenged them and they replied claiming that they can rely on extraordinary circumstances for…
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Easyjet 2030 ACE-MAN
Hi all, I'm sure this is the millionth time someone has posted about something to do with an easyjet claim, but here goes... My partner and I were due to fly back from Lanzarote to Manchester on 13th September but the plane we were meant to take was delayed leaving Manchester. It was the one that was all over the news for…
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Flight Compensation Claims - Beware Of 'Assistance' Offered in Frankfurt (FRA) Airport
Lufthansa flight (FRA to JNB) was cancelled whilst we were on runway, so it was back to airport and an overnight stay in Frankfurt arranged by Lufthansa. Taxi and hotel accommodation was well handled by Lufthansa. Next morning on arrival, after passport control / security arrived at Gate awaiting new boarding. There were…
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Are these deadlines/statutes correct?
Lost bag claim UK to Spain, as per Montreal convention, 2 years Claim for accommodation and food and alternative flights because of abandonment during last years air traffic control mess (Switzerland to UK, had to fly via Spain instead, 3 nights hotel, etc) - ??? how long? And is it UK261 or some other law?
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Holiday compensation
My family’s holiday to Turkey in May this year was delayed by 30 hours due the cancellation of the flight departing from Manchester. This was due to a death on the inbound flight in to Manchester. We ultimately took off >28 hours later than scheduled. On returning from holiday we looked in to compensation for this delay.…
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Flight cancelled by airline, re-booked 24hrs later - compensation and expenses claim query
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help with these questions: Very recently, several of us travelled together on the same flight from UK to Sweden for a wedding. We all booked our flights at different times, but arranged for two of us to sit together, and for everyone else to travel on the same flights, as a group, due to…
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Confusion over BA flight delay compensation refusal
I travelled on BA0793 from Gothenburg to London Heathrow on 12 September. The flight was initially delayed by around an hour due to ATC restrictions because of bad weather en route. This was then lifted and we were given a slot and started to taxi but then stopped and had to return to stand due to a technical issue with…
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EasyJet falsely claiming adverse weather caused delay
Hi, Writing on behalf of brother travelling from Amsterdam to Bristol, currently 5+ hours delayed. Easyjet claim adverse weather in Bristol as the cause for this delay on this bright, sunny and calm day. Technically this means no compensation can be claimed as it is an 'extraordinary' circumstance. The actual weather is…
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EasyJet planes collide on tarmac
Hi. I feel I need to share this. You may recall seeing it on the news. My daughter was due to fly from Manchester to Paris with EasyJet on Friday 15th August. Whilst taxiing out to the runway her plane clipped wings with another EasyJet plane resulting in significant damage to her plane and a 5.5 hour delay. She wrote to…
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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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Unable to claim flight compensation
I have followed Martins advice in claiming flight delay compensation, I used the online form with easyJet they told me it was the wrong flight number, they informed me of the correct flight number, so I submitted again with the number they gave me, again they said it was wrong. I don't understand how hard it is if they so…
