Flight Delay Compensation Time Limit
Track airline escalation and an independently confirmed national-law limit without inventing one EU-wide claim deadline. Inputs stay in your browser.
EU passenger-rights guidance provides an airline complaint path, but the time limit for court action varies under national law. No country preset is invented here.
Context matters.
- Check the operating carrier, departure/arrival geography and the exact disruption facts before treating Regulation 261/2004 as applicable.
- If the airline does not reply within two months or the response is unsatisfactory, Your Europe points travelers to the relevant national enforcement body or dispute route.
- Passenger-rights rules are changing. Confirm the rules effective on the flight date before relying on any future-flight result.
Sources & scope
The calculation guide and this source trail show what the result means, where the rule came from and when it was last reviewed. This is source-and-calculation QA, not a claim of medical, legal, tax or other professional review; time-sensitive decisions still belong with the linked authority.
A visible path from input to answer.
Track airline escalation and an independently confirmed national-law limit without inventing one EU-wide claim deadline. The page keeps the calculation scope and its limits beside the result so the output can be checked, copied or revisited.
- Read the record. The calculator uses Disrupted flight date, EU passenger-rights scope, Disruption record, Airline claim submission date and Court / enforcement jurisdiction and 7 additional fields supplied in the form.
- Apply the scope. It applies the EU air-passenger claim workflow — route/carrier scope, airline complaint, national limitation law and current rule version control reference and the explicit date, unit and counting conventions shown in the result.
- Expose the checkpoints. Intermediate rows, warnings and timeline events stay visible; the emphasized row identifies the primary checkpoint when one exists.
EU passenger-rights guidance provides an airline complaint path, but the time limit for court action varies under national law. No country preset is invented here.
- Legal entitlement and final filing deadlineNot determined by this calculator
Calculation purpose: Track airline escalation and an independently confirmed national-law limit without inventing one EU-wide claim deadline. This is a high-sensitivity reference output; the linked authority or qualified professional controls the final decision.
Calendar inputs use plain year-month-day semantics. Leap days, month ends, date-pair order and unsupported dates are checked before the result is shown.
Rule set 2.0.0 · Last reviewed 2026-08-20 · Next review due 2027-02-20. The source panel below contains the linked evidence.
What to know before using the result.
Is there one EU-wide deadline for filing an EU261 court claim?
No. Your Europe says the time limit for court action depends on national law. The tool therefore has no preset UK, German or French period.
What does the two-month date mean?
It is an airline-response follow-up point in the Your Europe complaint path, not a universal court limitation deadline.
Does a long delay automatically guarantee compensation?
No. Route and operating-carrier scope, arrival delay, notice, extraordinary circumstances, rerouting and evidence all matter under the rules effective for the flight.