Flight delay compensation calculator (EU 261)

If you reach your final destination three hours or more late, you get €250 for a flight up to 1,500 km, €400 for an intra-EU flight over 1,500 km or another flight of 1,500 to 3,500 km, and €600 for a longer flight. On flights over 3,500 km the amount may be cut to €300 if the delay is under four hours. The ticket price makes no difference.

At least three hours at your final destination. Arrival time is when the first aircraft door is opened. A late departure does not count on its own if the plane makes up time and you arrive less than three hours late. The airline must still provide meals and refreshments once departure is two, three or four hours late, depending on distance.

Yes, if you were told less than 14 days before departure. No compensation is due if, 7 to 14 days before departure, the airline offered a flight leaving no more than two hours earlier and arriving less than four hours late, or, less than 7 days before, a flight leaving no more than an hour earlier and arriving less than two hours late. You can always get the ticket price back within seven days if you do not want an alternative flight.

Only extraordinary circumstances that could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken. These usually include bad weather, air traffic control decisions, strikes by airport or air traffic control staff, bird strikes and security risks. Under EU Court of Justice case law, a technical fault found during maintenance, a crew member's illness or a strike by the airline's own staff is not an extraordinary circumstance. The airline has to prove the cause.

It covers every flight departing from an EU country, Iceland, Norway or Switzerland, whatever the airline. Flights into these countries are covered only when a European airline operates them. A flight from Antalya to Helsinki on a Turkish airline is therefore not covered, but the same flight on Finnair is.

Fill in the airline's claim form and attach your booking confirmation. Claim soon: Finland's Consumer Disputes Board considers a claim made within five months of the flight to be usually still in time. If the airline refuses, contact Finnish consumer advice (kuluttajaneuvonta). Once the reform of the regulation applies from 23 October 2027, compensation must be claimed within nine months of departure.

You can claim yourself for free and keep the whole amount. A claims service handles the claim for you and keeps part of the compensation: Compensair, for example, charges 35%, plus 10% if legal action is needed. Out of €400 you would receive €260 through the service. It helps when the airline does not answer or refuses without good reason.

When departure is delayed by two, three or four hours depending on distance, the airline must provide meals and refreshments and the chance to make two phone calls or send two emails. If departure moves to the next day, it must arrange a hotel and transport. With a delay of five hours or more you may give up the journey and get the ticket price back.

Yes, if the flights were on a single booking. What counts is how late you reached your final destination, and the amount depends on the distance from your departure airport to that destination. If you departed from the EU area, the regulation covers the whole journey even if the disruption happened outside the EU.

Yes. Regulation (EU) 2026/2202 was published on 2 October 2026 and applies from 23 October 2027. The amounts of €250, €400 and €600 and the three-hour threshold stay, but compensation may then be halved only on flights over 3,500 km when the delay is four hours or less. Claims must be made within nine months, and the airline must pay or explain a refusal within 30 days.