Claim COMPENSATION FROM Air France
What compensation can I claim from Air France?
Claim to Air france for delay, cancellation or overbooking
If you want to claim a flight to Air France due to a flight delay (over 3 hours), cancellation o overbooking, you should know that you can get up to 600 € depending on the flight distance.
Remember that you can claim to this company wether they operated the flight, even if the plane was not theirs.
How can I claim a flight cancellation, delay or overbooking to Air France?
You can claim by yourself requesting the money to the airline. But be sure they will not give you anything at all or maybe a much smaller amount of money than they should. The second option is to claim though Lexority. We have specialized lawyers in passengers rights so we know all the “tricks” the airlines use and we knkow how to avoid them to win the case and get your money for you.
What can I claim to Air France after a problem with a flight?
Compensation for the problem with Air France
A claim for an Air France flight cancellation, delay or overbooking may get a compensation of 250, 400 or 600€ depending on the distance of the flight the passenger bought a ticket for. In the next table you can see the money you should get per passenger according to the european law:
Flight under 1500 km
With the characteristics below-
Airline based in the EU
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OR
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Flight departure from the EU
Flight between 1500-3000 km
With the characteristics below-
Airline based in the EU
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OR
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Flight departure from the EU
Flight over 3500 km
With the characteristics below-
Airline based in the EU
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OR
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Flight departure from the EU
Compensation for extra expenses
But the ones above are not the only things you can claim Air France for. You can also ask for a compensation for the next expenses:
- If you had to buy a new ticket due to the problem with a flight, you can also ask for the money of the new ticket to Air France.
- If you cancelled your trip because the new date makes no sense, the airline must give you back the money for the ticket and all generated expenses in destinations (hotels, tours, ...)
- The airline has to pay for all expenses generated while you wait for a new flight too (food, hotel in the airport, taxis, ...)
What do you need to know before making a claim to Air France?
Here is the list of prerequisites to claim a flight to an airline:
- For a delay claim, the delay of your flight must have been over 3 hours.
- On the case of a flight time or date change: If Air France told you about the change more than 14 days in advance, you can´t request for any compensation.
- According our statistics, only a 5% of people who make a claim on their own get any money from Air France. Besides, those who achieve it get 30% less than what they get through us.
Which documents do you need to prepare a claim to Air France?
These are all the documents you will need to prepare a claim which will be successful against Air France.
- Flight tickets
- Trip itinerary
- ID of the passenger
- Recipes of all the expenses generated by the incident