Santa Barbara Compensation: Claim flight delay, cancellation or baggage

Santa Barbara Compensation: Claim flight delay, cancellation or lost baggage. Get up to 600 euros compensation for a delayed or cancelled flight and € 1.414 for lost luggage.

Santa Barbara flight compensation: Eu law and Montreal Convention

Santa Barbara EU Flight compensation: delayed, cancelled and overbooked flight

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Only when any of these 2 circumstances happen:

  1. if it is an european airline or…
  2. if the flight departs from europe

Compensation table under Eu law: Santa Barbara delayed, cancelled and overbooked fligh

Summary – Santa Barbara flight compensation according to EU Regulation
Flight Distance (Km)Santa Barbara CompensationClaim
– 1.500 km€ 250Claim € 250
1.500 Km – 3.500 Km€ 400Claim € 400
More than 3.500 Km€ 600Claim € 600

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Santa Barbara Example of compensation according to european law

  • Flight overbooking from Frankfurt to Florence: Less than 1.500 km = 250 euros + expenses.
  • Flight delay from Las Palmas to Florence: 1.500 km -3.500 km = 400 euros + expenses.
  • Flight overbooking from Paris to : More than 3.500 km = € 600 + expenses.

Santa Barbara Compensations under Montreal Convention for delays, cancellations, overbooked flights and baggage

Santa Barbara delay compensation

Only when these 2 circumstances occur simultaneously:

  1. All luggage claims even if it is an european airline
  2. When it is not an european airline and the flight doesn´t take off from Europe

Delayed flight, cancellation or overbooking compensation table according to the Montreal Convention

Montreal Convention outline: Santa Barbara compensation
CompensationLimit of liabilityExpenses
Baggage€ 5.708 = 4.694 SDR (Special Drawing Rights)Hotels, taxis, tours, other missed flights

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Santa Barbara lost baggage or delayed luggage compensation


Reclaim lost baggage Santa Barbara

If you want to Claim Santa Barbara for lost baggage you can get a compensation of 1.414 euros + expenses.

Table: Santa Barbara lost baggage compensation according to the Montreal Convention
Luggage claimLimit of liabilityExpenses
Lost or damaged€ 1.414 = 1.253 SDR (Special Drawing Rights)Clothes, cost of the baggage, taxis

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Note: Fill in the PIR to claim for the luggage to Santa Barbara: Property Irregularity Report

Pir Santa Barbara

What is the meaning of PIR?

The Santa Barbara Property Irregularity Report (PIR) ref number is a unique code that traces your delayed or damaged baggage. It has a combination of 10 letters and numbers and it is imperative to claim to Santa Barbara.

  • Number of lost luggages
  • Issue
  • Reference code so that Santa Barbara can trace the suitcase
  • Flight
  • Date
  • Colour and type
  • Name

What you should know about Santa Barbara cancellations

Santa Barbara cancelled flights notified more than fourteen days before date of departure:

James has received a text from Santa Barbara telling him that his flight in 24 days is cancelled. He does not have a right to compensation under the Regulation but may seek a refund of his flight cost. If there isn´t proof of text from Santa Barbara he will be entitled to a compensation too.

Santa Barbara cancelled flight notified between seven and fourteen days before date of departure:

John has received a message from Santa Barbara telling him that his flight in 13 days is cancelled. He has a right to compensation as his flight was cancelled by Santa Barbara between 7 and 14 days before his departure and his flight departs more than two hours before the original scheduled time of departure and arrives more than 4 hours after the original scheduled arrival time.

Santa Barbara cancellations notified less than seven days before departure:

James has received a mail from Santa Barbara notifying him that his flight in 2 days is cancelled. He has a right to compensation as his flight was cancelled by Santa Barbara less than 7 days before his departure and the new flight departs more than one hour before the {original} time of departure and arrives more than two hours after the original scheduled time.

Santa Barbara Flight problem on a Business Trip?

If Santa Barbaraflight gets cancelled, overbooked or delayed the passenger is entitled to receive the compensation, even if the company paid for the flight.

Can I claim my flight delay directly to Santa Barbara?

First, if you want to claim directly to Santa Barbara, you should know your chances are very small, since very often Santa Barbara tries to justify their delayed flights with extraordinary circumstances that did not really happen, like bad weather. Therefore, it is advised to direct your claim through lexority.

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How far back can you go with claiming flight delay compensation to Santa Barbara

Deadline to claim a flight to Santa Barbara: 2 to 5 years as a general rule, depending on the type of regulation that is fit in that particular case.

  • Montreal Convention: 2 years
  • UE Regulation: 2 to 10 years. It is necessary to the civil code for each country.

Documentation to claim correctly to Santa Barbara:

Flight

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Boarding pass

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Identification

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Receipts

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Some advice to claim Santa Barbara

Be carefull with the offers of Santa Barbara

Don´t accept any offer from Santa Barbara that doesn’t match what the Regulations dictates. Refer to the sections above to check the compensation you are legally entitled to.

Santa Barbara delayed flights for 3 or more hours

Santa Barbara delay must be higher than 3 hours to be granted a compensation.

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Santa Barbara overbooking: is it legal?

Overbooked Santa Barbara flight: When Santa Barbara sells more tickets than the actual number of people they can accommodate.

The overbooking is legal, but you can be granted up to € 600.

Santa Barbara aims to avoid empty seats because of no-shows, but this must be legally sanctioned.

Once a Santa Barbara passenger has received a reservation or any document stating the payment has been accepted and registered, it is a “confirmed reservation”. Boarding denials happen when a passenger presents to the gate but Santa Barbara refuses them access to the plane.

How to know how long the Santa Barbara flight has been delayed

Santa Barbara delayed flight time

  1. Have a Lexority attorney to tell you how long the Santa Barbara flight has been delayed without a doubt. You have to be aware that the following tools are not always accurate and need a payment record.
  2. You can use the web http://www.flightstats.com/ where if you register you can see the Santa Barbara status of all flights including those of years ago.
  3. Another way is entering to https://www.flightradar24.com/ where you can see the last seven days Santa Barbara flight delays without registering. If you register you can also see delayed flights from up to two years ago.

Advice: When the Santa Barbara delay is very close to 3 hours, Flightradar24 is not 100% reliable, since it shows the time of landing, but not the exit from the plane, which is what the regulations says has to be taken in consideration.