What is Article 7 of the EU261?

Article 7 — Right to compensation EUR 250 for all flights of 1500 kilometres or less; EUR 400 for all intra-Community flights of more than 1500 kilometres, and for all other flights between 1500 and 3500 kilometres; EUR 600 for all flights not falling under (a) or (b).



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You'll need to file the claim with the operating airline responsible for the flight delay or cancelation. It can take some time to get a response from an airline, so give it a few weeks to a month or so before following up if you don't get a response.

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If an operating air carrier places a passenger in a class higher than that for which the ticket was purchased, it may not request any supplementary payment.

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Article 9 — Right to care - where a stay additional to that intended by the passenger becomes necessary; transport between the airport and place of accommodation (hotel or other).

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Article 5Cancellation 3.An operating air carrier shall not be obliged to pay compensation in accordance with Article 7, if it can prove that the cancellation is caused by extraordinary circumstances which could not have been avoided even if all reasonable measures had been taken.

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Wizz Air has one of the strictest luggage policies and we're guessing that they have a system in place that easily identifies luggage that habt been paid for when you try bringing it on the plane.

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EU261 therefore continues, for the foreseeable future, to give passengers the same rights that they had previously. This includes rights created by past EU case law (such as the right to compensation for delay created in the controversial Sturgeon case), which will continue to bind lower UK courts.

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