British Airways Flight Delay Compensation

Claiming Flight Compensation With British Airways

We’ve got all the information you need to make your flight delay compensation claim through our award-winning flight claim checker as well as useful information on BA and how to claim direct.

Bott and Co are the UK’s leading flight delay compensation company – we’ve recovered more than £77 million in compensation for over 228,000 people after setting up this area of law on behalf of air travellers.

We specialise in helping people recover compensation from BA when they have been ignored or fobbed off with excuses such as extraordinary circumstances. If this is you, or you simply don’t want the hassle of dealing with British Airways directly, then submit your flight details today to get started.

How To Claim Compensation From British Airways

Some people like to have a go at claiming flight delay compensation from the airline before coming back to Bott and Co. If you’re up for the task and have some time on your hands then we’ve got all the information you need.

First you should familiarise yourself with the EU261 rules on flight compensation and the airline policy on paying out on claims after a long delay.

The amounts you can claim are set by Regulation EC261/2004 and vary depending on the flight distance and length of delay. Shorter delays on short-haul flights are valued at £220 whereas a four hour or more delay on a long-haul flight is as much as £520 per person.

You’ll need to know where to send your letter of claim as well. We’ve included the official British Airways address for flight delay claims below:

British Airways Customer Relations (S506)
PO Box 5619
Sudbury
Suffolk
CO10 2PG

Or to make things easier you can download our template letter of claim for BA flight delays.

Download Template Letter For British Airways Flight Delay Compensation

Download letter for a British Airways flight delay compensation claim.
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Download letter for a British Airways denied boarding/ overbooking claim.

British Airways have included some information on their website about claiming for delays and what your rights are and their policy on recovering out of pocket expenses.

Following a number of significant periods of cancelled BA flights with a combination of strikes and IT failures, BA have specific information on compensation for cancelled flights (which has different amounts than delays) here.

Claiming Flight Compensation With Bott and Co

Bott and Co’s world-leading flight delay specialists can help you recover compensation from British Airways – no matter if the airline has already refused to pay out or even if you’ve previously lost in court.

Our claim process is so simple you’ll be amazed at how quickly we can get started – over half of cases settle within 30 days when we issue court proceedings. Airlines don’t get away with ignoring us like they might try to do with you.

Thousands of passengers have come to us for delays and cancellations caused by the IT systems failure and we’ve managed to secure compensation where others have failed.

Just put your flight number and date into our flight delay claim checker and our system will process the details to give you an instant answer on whether you have a valid claim and how much you’re entitled to.

We’ll check for the following:

• The length of the flight delay against official data
• The distance of the flight to determine the claim amount
• Whether we have already won compensation on your flight
• If there is jurisdiction on the flight
• The flight is covered by EU261 rules
• Any relevant extraordinary circumstances

You can then submit your claim to our specialist flight delay team and we’ll get started on the legal work, send you updates by email, and transfer the money to your account when we receive it from the airline.

All the work we do is guaranteed under our no-win no-fee service so on the rare occasion we don’t win a claim, there is nothing to pay.

There are no upfront charges, no hidden fees, and unlike claims management companies we can issue court proceedings on your behalf – we’ll go all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to all for no additional charge.

Simple 4 Step Claims Process

• Check your flight with our free, industry leading calculator
• Add any extra passenger details and make your claim
• We negotiate with the airline on your behalf
• Claim is settled and you receive your compensation

Can You Take Over My BA Claim?

If you’ve already started a claim with BA but have been ignored, or fobbed off with excuses, and you’re not sure what to do next then we can take over your claim for you.

Simply submit your British Airways flight number and date through our flight delay calculator and we’ll begin the legal work.

There’s no hassle and our claims process is so advanced that it’s much quicker claiming with Bott and Co than using an ombudsman service or claiming yourself, particularly as there is no ombudsman service that can force an airline to pay out.

You could be owed up to £520 per passenger for a flight delay in the last six years so dig out those old flight details or use our unique flight lookup feature and we’ll find the flight number for you.

The amounts of compensation for flight delays range from £220 to £520 depending on the length of the delay and distance travelled and are set by the rules of the EU261 regulation.

For flight cancellations, the amounts and conditions are slightly different and with so many recent BA cancellations, you might need to know the following claim amounts for if the flight was cancelled less than 7 days before it was due to depart: