Missed Flight Compensation

A lot of circumstances come when you missed out your connection flight on a long journey and it's a very common thing among the passengers. But do you know that you can also be entitled to up to $700 compensation if you missed connecting flight due to any delay or cancel? It's only applicable if you were traveling to or from the EU and your booking was protected by EC 261 regulation.

There are lots of things you have to know before claiming a missed connection compensation which is mentioned below:

Who is eligible for compensation?

Every passenger is eligible for claiming a missed flight connection as per the EC 261, if someone:

• Missed a connecting flight because of a flight delay, cancellation or overbooked.
• Make sure that the flight took off in Europe and landed in Europe.
• If the airlines have already provided you with the replacement flight, then you can still, claim for compensation.
• Your connecting flights must have the part of the same booking and not booked into different parts or say individually.
• A missed connection flight is delayed and arrived at your destination late more than 3 hours.
• Any kind of disruption which is caused you to miss your connection that was within the airline's control such as technical problems or airlines staff's strike.

How much compensation you will get on a missed connection flight?

The amount of compensation depends on the reason for that you missed connection flight. But one of the most common reasons for a missed connection is flight delay and you can simply claim for compensation as per the EC 261 regulations.

This compensation always based on the delay's length and you can better understand with the help of below chart:

Less than 3 hours	3-4 hours	More than 4 hours	Never arrived	Distance
€250	€250	€250	€250	All sorts of flights 1500 km or less
€400	€400	€400	€400	Internal EU flights over 1500 km
€400	€400	€400	€400	Non-internal EU flights between 1500 and 3500 km
€300	€300	€600	€600	Non-internal EU flights over 3500 km

If your missed connection reason is different from delay, then you will entitle to a different compensation's amount which will be based on your flight type and destination.

How to request a claim for compensation for missed connection flight with ClaimsXpert?

Sometimes many passengers confuse to understand the process of claiming compensation for a missed connection flight whether it's a very easy and straightforward process to understand. If you are one among those ,then ClaimsXpert ,we will help you to make your claim process easy.

We help you in below ways:

• We gather the information about your missed connection flights that may your booking number, name or other things.
• We will check either you are eligible for a compensation claim or not.
• We use a secure and relevant way to collect and check your information for building a request for compensation.
• We charge a very minimal fee which is subjected to pay once you get your money successfully in your account.

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