Claim compensation from TAP Air Portugal
Flights delayed more than three hours by TAP Air Portugal or other operators can bring in € 33.33 million for the passengers concerned and detained at several airports in Europe or on other continents
Since 2004, air passengers have had the right to be compensated by their company if their flight is 3 hours late or more. Failing to enforce it, in Portugal € 680 million was not claimed in 2014. In Lisbon alone 53,537 passengers concerned would have abandoned € 24 million in compensation… Startups are responsible for correcting this, even five years after the delays suffered.
It’s a fact, the numbers are stubborn. Each year in Europe, more than fifty million passengers who have experienced flight delays or cancellations abandon more than ten billion euros in compensation to which they are nevertheless entitled. Several young American companies have decided to tackle this neglected gold mine and have built their business model on this vein.
Between 125 and 600 euros per passenger
In the European Union and Switzerland, the law which protects them dates from 2004. Implemented in February 2005 and called EU 261, it stipulates that air passengers must be financially compensated if their flight is canceled or overbooked. In October 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that passengers whose flight arrives three hours or more late are also entitled to compensation, unless the delay is due to extraordinary extraordinary circumstances of the will of the company, such as strikes or bad weather.
This compensation for delay, overbooking or flight cancellation can reach 250, 400 or 600 euros per passenger, the amount varying according to the duration of the flight in question.
Experience shows that less than 1% of passengers demand to receive their due compensation … For the others, it may not be too late.
Law firms know that passenger compensation is a godsend all the more interesting since airlines are reluctant to open, spontaneously, the compensation wallet
Retroactive compensation over three years
Thanks to fine exploitations of big data or big data from government agencies, airport data, flight tracking, information from tour operators and private database traders, these startups validate the eligibility of a request for a compensation. She takes care of administrative paperwork, possibly legal remedies in the event of a company’s refusal to pay. Better, the detailed analysis of the big data on air transport allows them to offer its services on flights made or not, three years back.
Cross analysis of current and old databases allows us to enforce the law even when it comes to old trips. We can even, with the authorization of the applicant, scan his mailbox to find all traces of his trips and identify trips that have experienced eligible delays and which he will have, if he travels a lot, forgotten the unpleasant experience.
Anyone can claim compensation, but since the companies are very silent about this possibility, and above all generally turn a deaf ear when a passenger makes a complaint, we think of taking over by simplifying the process for the traveler as much as possible.
The companies take 25% of the compensation recovered by the traveler. On average, this compensation amounts to € 450 per traveler.
The economic potential is enormous, not sure that it raises the airlines’ joy.
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In regular contact with airlines including TAP Portugal, the compensation firms know that some of them are also regularly late when it comes to taking out the check book.
Contrary to what one might think, these companies do not have bad relations with companies. If they attack them, they give visibility to their lack of punctuality. The figures are stubborn and cruel also sometimes because, when we look a little more precisely in the data collected and analyzed by startups, we discover that, even if they are not responsible for the situation which more generally falls to companies , we can identify a classification of airports where there is the greatest risk of being delayed.