Dear Passenger,
If you are denied boarding, your flight is cancelled or delayed for at least two hours, or your baggage is lost or damaged, you may be entitled to certain standards of treatment and compensation under the Air Passenger Protection Regulations. For more information about your passenger rights please contact us or visit the Canadian Transportation Agency’s website which may not meet accessibility guidelines.
You are entitled to certain rights under the terms of EU Regulation 261/2004 if your flight is cancelled or subjected to a long delay, or if you have been denied boarding on a flight for which you hold a confirmed reservation. The operating airline is responsible for granting you these rights.
In case you have a USA ticket, the US DOT refund regulations may also apply.
The Regulation applies:
These are: meals appropriate for the waiting time, overnight hotel accommodation where necessary, inc. transfer costs and the option of two short phone calls, faxes or e-mails. The airline is not obliged to provide you with these care services if it would delay your departure further.
If you were denied boarding for your booked flight against your will due to overbooking, you are entitled to receive care services from the airline. You will also be offered alternative transport to the final destination you booked. This will take place at the earliest opportunity and on comparable conditions.
Subject to seat availability, you may instead choose to be re-routed to your final destination at a later and more convenient date, although in this case you would have to bear the cost of food, accommodation and transfer yourself. If you have been denied boarding against your will or voluntarily, you have the right to an alternative flight or a refund and compensation that can also be paid by cash card, bank transfer or, with your agreement, in the form of a voucher. The amount of this payment depends on the distance of the scheduled flight leg and on the alternative transportation offered to you:
The basis for determining the distance is the last destination at which the passenger arrived after the scheduled arrival time as a result of being denied boarding or cancellation.
The compensation payment will only be 50% of the above amounts, i.e. €125, €200 or €300, if you are offered an alternative flight where the arrival time does not exceed the scheduled arrival time of the flight originally booked by more than 2 hours for flights of up to 1,500 km, or by more than 3 hours for flights between 1,500 and 3,500 km, or by more than 4 hours for all flights over 3,500 km.
You are not entitled to the payment and services described above if you were denied boarding due to your own fault, for health or safety reasons or if your travel documentation was missing or insufficient.
If your flight is cancelled, you also have the same rights to alternative transport, care services, reimbursement and compensation specified above.
However, you are not entitled to receive compensation under the EU Regulation if the event can be attributed to extraordinary circumstances that could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken. This includes, for example, poor weather conditions, political instability, strikes, security risks and unexpected flight safety deficiencies.
There is also no right to compensation if:
Delays as defined in EU Regulation 261/04 occur if a flight is delayed beyond its scheduled departure time by 4 hours for flights of more than 3,500 km, by 3 hours for flights of between 1,500 and 3,500 km and flights of over 1,500 km within the EU, and by 2 hours for flights of up to 1,500 km. If your flight is expected to have a major delay, you are entitled to care services from the airline.
For delays of more than 5 hours, you are entitled to a refund within seven days of the cost of the ticket for the parts of the journey not completed or for those parts of the journey already completed if the delay meant that the journey no longer served its purpose. You are also entitled to onward transport to your first point of departure at the earliest opportunity where necessary.
If you are downgraded to a lower class, you are entitled to compensation within 7 days. The amount of this payment depends on the scheduled flight leg and the airfare paid for each segment:
Please contact our Customer Feedback Services Department to check your entitlements under EU Regulation 261/04.
If your journey was a private trip, you have the right to contact the neutral arbitration body Schlichtung Reise & Verkehr e.V. in the event of disputes regarding flights.
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