Your flight was wrecked. Find out if the airline owes you money.
Most checkers force you to pick a country first. A Toronto–Frankfurt or London–New York trip can fall under two regimes at once — with different amounts and deadlines. This one checks all three together.
$14.99 $0 for the full claim pack during launch.
Free for the first 500 claim packs or 90 days, whichever comes first. After that the pack is $14.99 — still flat, still no %. Early users keep it free. Just leave an email to get yours.
Try a real scenario:
Check your flight — free
Takes 30 seconds. No email needed for the verdict.
How it works
One engine, three rulebooks. You supply what happened — we don't need live flight scraping to give a verdict.
Tell us the journey
Route, airline, how late you actually arrived, and the reason you were given. Distance is calculated from the airports you pick.
We test every regime
EU261, UK261 and Canada APPR are checked side-by-side — including the overlaps where you can choose the better payout.
Get the pack free — keep 100%
If you're likely eligible, leave an email and the claim pack is yours free in the founding cohort: the exact letter, evidence list, regulator route and deadline reminders for the winning regime.
Three regimes, one table
This is the page travellers actually need when a trip crosses borders.
| EU261 (EU / EEA / Switzerland) | UK261 (United Kingdom) | APPR (Canada) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applies when | Departing the EU (any airline) OR arriving in the EU on an EU airline | Departing the UK (any airline) OR arriving in the UK on a UK/EU airline | Flights to, from or within Canada (and connections on same ticket) |
| Delay / cancel | €250 (<1,500 km) · €400 (1,500–3,500 km) · €600 (>3,500 km) | £220 · £350 · £520 on same distance bands | Large carrier: $400 (3–6h) · $700 (6–9h) · $1,000 (9h+) |
| Denied boarding | Same bands as above | Same bands as above | $900 (<6h delay) · $1,800 (6–9h) · $2,400 (9h+) |
| No payout if | Extraordinary circumstances — weather, ATC, security — beyond airline control | Within airline control but required for safety, or outside airline control | |
| Deadline | Varies by country (often 2–6 years) — file promptly | Generally 6 years in England & Wales (5 in Scotland) | File with airline within 1 year; then Canadian Transportation Agency |
| Enforcer | National Enforcement Body in departure country | CAA / AviationADR / CEDR scheme | Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) |
Amounts are the statutory headline figures. Long-haul EU/UK payouts can halve if the delay is 3–4 hours on a >3,500 km route. Small-carrier APPR amounts are lower ($125–$500).
The claim pack — free for launch users
The checker is free. For the founding cohort, the full claim pack is free too — no checkout, no commission, no cut of your payout.
Everything you need to file — free in the founding cohort.
Generated from your verdict, for the regime that pays you most.
- Personalised claim letter to the airline (ready to send)
- Evidence checklist — what to attach and what to keep
- Regulator / CTA complaint pack if the airline says no or goes silent
- Deadline reminders — your exact filing dates, explained
- Reply templates for the three common airline brush-offs
Claims firms charge 25–35% for this. We charge $0 during launch — you keep 100% of whatever the airline pays.
Free for the first 500 claim packs or 90 days, whichever comes first. After the launch period the pack will be $14.99 — early users who join now get it free. Run the checker above first, then claim your pack:
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Questions travellers actually ask
Can I claim under two regimes for the same flight?
You can often qualify under two — e.g. Toronto–Frankfurt can trigger both APPR and EU261 — but you can't be paid twice for the same disruption. The checker shows both so you can file under the one that pays more or is easier to enforce.
The airline said “safety” or “weather” — is that the end?
Not automatically. Airlines must prove the cause and that they took reasonable measures. “Safety” under APPR and “extraordinary circumstances” under EU/UK law are the most disputed categories — that's exactly why verdicts here say “likely” and the pack includes the challenge templates.
Do I need the airline's live flight data?
No. For a verdict, your actual arrival delay and the reason you were given are what the rules turn on. Keep your boarding pass, booking email and any delay notifications — they're in the pack's evidence checklist.
What if it was a connection?
Use your final destination and your delay arriving there. On a single ticket, a missed connection that makes you 4 hours late counts — even if the first leg was only 40 minutes late.
Is this legal advice?
No. It's a rules checker based on public law (EU261, UK261, Canada APPR) that gives a likely verdict with reasoning. Final decisions rest with the airline and the regulator/court in each regime.
Test barrage — verified outputs
Fourteen cases run against the live checker engine on 25 Oct 2026 — presets, thresholds, overlaps, and the cases that must not pay out. Tap “Re-run tests” to run them again in your browser against the current code; results below are not hard-coded text, they are the engine’s actual output.
| Case | Expected | Actual engine output | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Running barrage… | |||
Bug found & fixed in this barrage: a weather / extraordinary-circumstances case correctly returned “no payout” but the EU261/UK261 table row still displayed €600 / £520. The amount now shows €0 / £0 whenever the status is “no” — re-run T05 to confirm.
How we distribute — and put it on a domain
The checker is the distribution asset. No paid ads at launch; every channel below points at a free verdict, and the claim pack (for an email) is the conversion.
1 · Own the search
Long-tail pages travellers search in the airport: “APPR compensation calculator”, “EU261 claim deadline”, “[airline] delayed flight compensation”. The regime table on this page is the seed — each regime and airline becomes its own page on the domain, linking into the checker.
2 · Borrow audiences we already have
Launch article through True North Points (Canadian travellers — exactly the APPR audience), a value-first post on RedFlagDeals and r/aircanada / r/Flights style communities answering a real delay question with the checker as the tool, and the build log shared on X.
3 · Partners, after proof
Once live traffic converts, offer points/travel blogs the embeddable checker for rev-share — sold on evidence (“converts X% on live traffic”), not on a pitch. Measure everything by source: verdicts run → packs claimed → emails captured.
Domain — ready to go live, one board decision left
This site is domain-ready: a single static page, no absolute internal URLs, HTTPS-friendly, and it works at any hostname. Putting it on a custom domain is a hosting + DNS step, not a rebuild:
- Pick the name — short, says “delay + paid”, no airline trademarks. This is the board call, and the ~$15/yr registration is the first spend.
- Register + point DNS — register the domain, then add the DNS record the host provides (CNAME for www, A/ALIAS for the root) and wait for propagation.
- Attach to hosting — add the custom domain in the static host (e.g. Cloudflare Pages, as used for True North Points), let it issue the free HTTPS certificate.
- Verify on the domain — re-run the test barrage above on the live domain, check the checker + pack on a phone, then update the canonical URL and share links to the new address.
- Wire the email list before announcing — connect the pack form to the email provider so founding-cohort addresses are stored in a list we own, then publish the launch post.
No domain is claimed as bought on this page — until step 1 is approved, the checker runs on its current address and every step above stays a checklist, not a promise.
Build log
Built in public — the experiment, in the open.