If your flight landed 3+ hours late and it was the airline's fault, UK law says you're owed fixed cash compensation. Check free in 30 seconds — then get a ready-to-send claim letter.
Fixed amounts set by law (retained Regulation EC 261/2004), based on distance — not on the price of your ticket.
Yes. You're owed compensation when the delay was within the airline's control — a technical fault, crew shortage or overbooking. You're generally not owed it for genuinely "extraordinary circumstances" like severe weather, air-traffic-control restrictions or third-party strikes. Importantly, routine technical faults are the airline's responsibility (Huzar v Jet2), so don't be put off if they blame "a technical issue".
It's the delay arriving at your final destination that matters, not the departure delay. Three hours or more (four for the longest flights) puts you in scope. A cancellation with little or no notice usually counts too.
Any flight departing a UK airport (on any airline), and flights arriving in the UK on a UK or EU airline. So most trips that started or ended in the UK are covered.
In England & Wales you have up to 6 years from the date of the flight (5 years in Scotland). So old delays often still count.
No. Claims-management firms typically take 25–40%. ConsumerSuit is free — you write directly to the airline and keep 100%.