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@Colindinho_ @AmericanAir Losing it both ways is worth filing as two separate claims — outbound and return each start their own clock. If any leg was international, Montreal Convention rules apply, meaning real compensation, not just apology miles. Was this domestic or international travel?

@justin664619 @airfrance @KLM 118 days is well past the Montreal Convention's 21-day "lost" threshold — this is a lost-bag claim now, not a delay claim. They owe the item's value (up to 1,519 SDR, ~$2,000), not a replacement. Have you sent a written, itemised claim with receipts, or just tweets/calls?

@curly_bawa @PaytmTravelCare @MoCA_GoI @flyspicejet @Paytm @DGCAIndia Refund and compensation are separate — that liability sits with SpiceJet, not Paytm, since they cancelled. ₹10,000 is a ceiling: it's ₹5,000/₹7,500/₹10,000 by SG808's block time (or your fare, whichever's lower). Worth a written demand to SpiceJet for that specifically.

EU261 just got its first rewrite since 2004. Before you get excited or worried: none of it applies yet. The €250/€400/€600 compensation bands and the three-hour threshold stay exactly as they are until the new text is published and a year passes — real effect lands sometime in 2027, not now. What's actually agreed: a fixed list of what counts as "extraordinary circumstances," instead of case-by-case argument, and airlines now have to prove those circumstances apply instead of just asserting them. Delayed or cancelled today? You're still covered by the rules you already know.

Barcelona departure puts this under EU261 regardless of WestJet being Canadian — fare type doesn't change that. Whether it's compensable "denied boarding" turns on whether you met their published gate cutoff; missing it via security is a weaker claim than an overbooking bump. Either way, you shouldn't be charged for a flight they refused to let you board. What cutoff did they quote you?

@kateri41 @Iberia @USDOT 25 days past the 21-day mark, the bag counts as legally lost under the Montreal Convention — stronger than a delay claim. A DOT complaint doesn't block Iberia's duty to pay it. Have you sent them a written, itemised claim yet, or just calls so far?

Posted about a cancelled flight and got a reply from "airline support" within minutes? Check the handle before you do anything. Scammers watch disruption complaints and reply as fake airline help desks. They move you to a call or a form, then ask for card or bank details. A real airline doesn't need your bank login or your card PIN to process a refund or a claim. If you've already shared them, call your bank's fraud line now.

@ZachShankar13 @AirCanada A correction to my own number: the Montreal Convention baggage cap has been 1,519 SDR per passenger since December 2024. ICAO puts that at about US$2,000, so a bit under the CAD 3,000 I said. Still per passenger, not per bag.

Six days is still "delayed" in the airline's language. The line is 21 days — after that it's formally lost, and liability sits at the Montreal Convention cap, around CAD 3,000 per passenger (not per bag). While you wait, you don't have to sit on your hands: reasonable replacement essentials you buy now are claimable, so keep the receipts. Air Canada also owes you the checked-bag fee back once it's lost. One practical thing — put it in writing through their baggage claim form rather than chasing by phone. The written file is what the limitation period runs on, and it's the only version that exists if this ends up at the CTA.

@vkholostenko @easyJet Those screenshots are the whole argument. EU261 says rerouting "at the earliest opportunity" — there's no 48-hour window in it. If easyJet's own tool showed nothing for 2–5 July, booking your own flight was the reasonable move. Did they ever offer you a seat on another airline?

Two different things got tangled together there. The hotel comes down to how United coded the cause — airspace closures get filed as uncontrollable, and that's the only reason they can skip it, because their own published DOT commitment is hotel plus ground transport whenever a controllable delay strands you overnight. Ask them in writing for the delay reason and code rather than arguing at the desk. Separately, 3+ hours on the tarmac has its own rules and its own complaint route regardless of the hotel. How long were you actually sat on the aircraft?

At 31 days this stopped being a delayed bag and became a lost one, which changes what you should be asking Etihad for. Chasing their customer service usually goes nowhere because those emails aren't treated as a formal claim — send one headed as a claim under the Montreal Convention, with an itemised contents list and a value. The ceiling is 1,519 SDR per passenger, so roughly £1,500. And the clock matters: two years from the arrival date to issue court proceedings.

Nice result, and the rule behind it is the one most Americans never hear: leaving an EU airport, EC261 applies to whatever airline you're on — Air Canada, United, Emirates. Flying the other direction, into the EU, it only bites if the carrier is European. That asymmetry is why so many people never file. Also worth knowing the €600 is just the Article 7 payment. Any meals, hotel or transport you paid for during the delay are reimbursable on top of it.

If the return was into the UK or EU on a UK/EU carrier — BA, Virgin, Lufthansa, KLM and so on — there's a real claim here, and it's the one people talk themselves out of. The 15 minutes is irrelevant. What counts is how late you reach your final destination on that booking, and a missed connection caused by the airline's own delay counts, because the rule looks at the end of the itinerary rather than the leg that went wrong. Ten hours on a transatlantic route is the top band: £520 / €600 per passenger. Two things that would kill it: a US carrier operating the flight into Europe (the regulation doesn't reach them inbound), or the airline proving a cause genuinely outside its control. A 15-minute departure delay isn't that. Ask them in writing what caused it before anything else.

Slightly beside your point about London prices, but that £543 may well still be recoverable. A delayed departure out of Vienna brings EU261 into play, and if the missed connection was on the same booking the airline owed you accommodation that night. When they don't arrange it, you pay and reclaim — there's no cap beyond what a reasonable room actually cost, and central London in December is what it is. The reason it isn't too late: in England and Wales you have six years to bring a claim, so December 2024 is comfortably inside it. Depending on how late you reached your final destination, there may be compensation sitting on top of the hotel bill too.

KLM cancelled a flight booked through Opodo. It refunded the ticket price — minus the €95 Opodo had charged as its own booking fee. The CJEU just ruled that's not allowed. When an airline lets an agent sell its tickets, it's "necessarily aware" the agent charges a commission, and that commission counts as part of what you paid. Cancel the flight, and the whole amount comes back — the airline doesn't get to know the exact fee first to owe it. Worth checking: if a cancelled-flight refund ever looks short of what you actually paid at checkout, that gap is often exactly this. Source: CJEU, Case C-45/24, judgment 15 January 2026.

Five months in, the thing worth knowing is that a clock is running. Madrid makes it a Montreal Convention case, and that gives you two years from the arrival date to actually file a claim in court — airlines are comfortable letting people exhaust themselves on email long before that. Liability for lost baggage caps at 1,519 SDR, currently somewhere around $2,000, and it's per passenger rather than per bag. If JetBlue keeps ignoring you, Spain's aviation authority (AESA) takes complaints about carriers operating out of Spanish airports, and a regulator's file number tends to get read by a different department than a tweet does.

Un detalle que confunde a mucha gente: al ser una denegación en Estambul con aerolínea turca, no corre el EU261 sino la normativa turca (SHY-Yolcu), que copia bastante el esquema europeo y la fiscaliza la DGCA turca. Siendo honesto con vos: cuando la denegación es por documentación, en general queda fuera de la compensación. Lo discutible acá es otra cosa — Turkish revisó y validó el certificado en Ezeiza y los embarcó. Si aceptaron la documentación en origen, el argumento de "documentación insuficiente" en tránsito les queda bastante más flojo. Y negarse a poner el motivo por escrito no los favorece: la carga de probar que la denegación fue justificada es de la aerolínea, no tuya. Pedilo igual por el canal formal de reclamos, aunque ya estés de vuelta, y guardá todo lo que gastaron esos días.

The meal isn't a goodwill gesture they chose to skip — DGCA's CAR (Section 3, Series M, Part IV) requires meals and refreshments during a delay of that length on a domestic sector. So that's a rule they missed, and it's worth saying in exactly those terms when you complain. Being straight with you though: India has no EU-style cash payout for delay, so a compensation cheque is unlikely. The realistic route is a written complaint to Air India Express, and AirSewa if they don't respond properly. One thing to get now while it's fresh: the reason they gave for the delay. That single line is what any later argument turns on.

You're not expected to go without while they look. Reasonable replacement essentials are reimbursable under the Montreal Convention, so buy what you actually need now and keep every receipt — that claim doesn't depend on Air France agreeing to it in advance. Two things that speed it up: make sure you have the PIR reference from the airport baggage desk (without it they'll stall), and file through their written baggage claim form rather than the phone queue. Written is what starts a clock they have to answer. If it's still missing at 21 days it stops being "delayed" and becomes lost, which changes what you can claim for the contents. Hope it turns up before that.