Even though the second quarter of 2020 has been non-existing when it comes to international travelling, we are now seeing that many major airlines start to continue its operations in multiple countries. Many countries has also been promoting tourism in order to attract tourists over this coming summer, so travelling might soon be on its increase again. If you are planning on travelling on holiday later this year you should be aware that even though the airline industry is having a really difficult time financially, that does not mean that passengers loses its rights when it comes to flight delays.
In Europe airline passengers has curtain rights when it comes to flight delays, cancelled flights and denied boarding. Currently the airlines have the rights to cancel flights without having to compensate the passengers, this is of course due to the extra ordinary situation which is seen as force majeure and thereby out of control for the airlines. When it comes to flight delays the passengers does still have rights to claim compensation if the flight is delayed more than 3 hours at the destination.
If you are going to experience a flight delay for more than 3 hours for a European flight, then it is pretty useful to know if you are eligible for compensation and how much compensation you can get. There are a lot of services on the internet that offers to do the claim for you, but these services are only free if you are not eligible for compensation. If you are eligible for compensation and the agency is able to win your claim for compensation on your behalf, then they will take around 25-30% of your compensation. Some of these services might even take more than 30 percent, and in some cases they can take up to 200 € of the compensation that you otherwise could have received.
So how can you get an overview of all of these services, and how can you see which of these services that will take the lowest percentage of our compensation? There is a free tool that can be used for this, all you need to do is to fill out the information about your flight delay, and the online calculator will check you can get flight delay compensation. Not only does the service give you the best overview of which services that can help claiming your compensation at the lowest rate, the service will also guide you to how you can submit your claim for compensation directly to the airline, and thereby get 100% of your compensation without having to give up some of our compensation to a 3rd party service.
So our tip is that the next time your flight has been delayed for more than 3 hours, you should always check this site to check if you can get compensation for your flight delay and furthermore how you can get the most of your own compensation by checking what rate the service is taking for their service.