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Flight overbooking

Stuck in a hold

If your flight’s been overbooked, or you’re denied boarding, you could claim hundreds.

Up to £520 compensation

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Your flight, your rights

Every cloud has a silver lining. And if your flight overbooked, that could ring out to the tune of the plus up to £520 in compensation.

All you have to do is meet the conditions set out in the EU Passenger Rights Regulation, and you have a claim on your hands.

Getting on top of overbooking

It’s not unusual for airlines to overbook flights. To make sure every trip is profitable, they’ll sell more tickets than they have seats or even use a smaller aircraft if they’ve not got enough bookings. If everyone checks in, they’ll then look for volunteers to surrender theirs. And if that fails, they’ll deny boarding to passengers against their will.

Thankfully, if you were on time for your flight, have all your complete travel documents and didn’t pose a security or health risk, you’ll be due compensation if denied boarding against your will when.

Airmiles have never been more valuable

If you’ve flown in the EU, or with an EU airline in the past 6 years and meet the regulation criteria, you could land hundreds in compensation.

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Up to

£220

for flights up to 1,500 km

eg. London to Edinburgh

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Up to

£350

for flights 1,500km to 3,500km

eg. London to Athens

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Up to

£520

for flights over 3,500km

eg. London to Tokyo

These amounts can be reduced by 50% if your airline offers an alternative flight which meets specific time criteria relative to the original schedule.

Check-in? Checkmate.

In order to qualify for overbooking compensation, for all intended purposes, you must check in at least 45 minutes before departure. And while there may be exceptions — for example, if an airline makes it absolutely clear that you’ll be denied boarding before you reach the airport — we would always recommend travelling to the airport and proceeding to your gate in case of any last-minute changes.

Do that, and the airline won’t have a wing and a prayer.

Flight rebooking happen mostly during package holidays. It’s either the flight time changes or passengers are booked on a completely different flight. If you arrive later at your final destination or you depart earlier than originally booked, you might be eligible for compensation as well.

What about rebooking?

Flight rebooking happens mostly during package holidays, with either the flight time changing or passengers being booked on completely different flights.

Whatever the case, if you arrive over 3 hours later to your final destination or if you depart earlier than originally booked, you might be eligible for compensation.

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If your flight is overbooked, stand out from the crowd.

Follow these 4 steps to help your claim.

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Keep hold of all relevant travel documents. Boarding cards, parking tickets, receipts…

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Ask the airline for written confirmation for the cause of the delays

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Help yourself to complimentary food and drinks at the airport

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Submit your claim to FlightReclaim247

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