Are Air Cairo flights arriving late compensable?
Air transport strikes generate quite a few reimbursement requests from travelers on the associated forums. Your flight has been delayed or canceled and you wish to be compensated, these are the steps to follow.
What rights in the event of an Air Cairo flight delay?
In the context of delayed, canceled, overbooked or re-routed flights, European legislation (regulation CE261 / 2004) provides compensation to all travelers. This amount from € 125 to € 600 is independent of the basic price of the plane ticket.
Unfortunately, claims are often denied to passengers despite arguable claims. As a result, many travelers no longer even try to assert their rights.
News circulating on the web explains that more than 500 million euros were never claimed by Egyptian passengers, most of them ignoring their rights in this area.
In case of delay
These delay situations are the most recurrent in the field of civil aviation. The indemnities are valid under certain circumstances such as strikes, mechanical breakdown, etc. Bad weather is not covered by European legislation.
Note that some companies, including Air Cairo, offer coverage for the costs caused by these delays, such as hotel nights, taxi transfers and telephone calls (2 free).
In the event of cancellation or denied boarding
The compensation depends on the number of kilometers of flights initially planned.
These indemnities are divided by 2 if the airline offers you another flight allowing you to arrive at your destination.
Was it not the role of the European Commission to better verify the correct application of its regulations?
Yes, of course. But it is under pressure from major airline groups. To the point that a recent proposal to revise the 2004 regulations made by the European Parliament could even jeopardize the recent progress made thanks to applications like ours and to better information and mobilization of passengers. This proposal aims to significantly increase the delay threshold which triggers compensation. Fixed at three o’clock, it could be increased to 5, 7 or even 12 o’clock. It would be a real regression in the rights of passengers.
How to claim compensation from Air Cairo?
You have the option of filling out a form through which you can entrust and transfer your file to air consumer compensation specialists. These are startups that take care of all these procedures to claim your compensation from the Egyptian airline or any other operator.
This service will cost you nothing if the procedure is not successful. In the event of compensation from the airlines, the startup will recover 25% of the compensation, which constitutes the cost of its support.
Interesting, right? Especially when you don’t have to deal with all of these procedures
If we had known this site before, we would have tried to assert your rights during all your trips which did not go as planned by plane following a delay, a cancellation or boarding refused because of an overbooking.
In any case now, in a few clicks you can check if your request is acceptable and thus get compensated without executing any legal proceedings.