Who writes this, and how it is checked

Who publishes it

eu261rights.com is published by EU261 Rights, part of the Uncompromised Travel network. It is a reference site, not a claims management company and not a law firm: we do not handle claims or take a percentage of them. Our only revenue is the affiliate links explained in our affiliate disclosure.

Where the figures come from

Every amount, threshold and time limit on the site traces back to a primary source: Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 on EUR-Lex, its retained UK equivalent on legislation.gov.uk, the European Commission’s interpretative guidelines, and the Court of Justice judgments that decide how the rules apply in practice. All of them are collected, with links, on our official sources page, so you can check any claim against the law yourself.

How cases are handled

Where a point turns on case law — whether a technical fault is extraordinary, how weather defences are judged, what counts as a qualifying delay — we cite the specific CJEU ruling and link to it on our case-law page rather than asserting it. Where national rules differ, such as claim time limits, the figure is given per country.

How current it is

Each page carries a “checked” date, and the whole site was last verified against the sources above on 28 August 2026. The 2026 reform of the Regulation was adopted on 13 July 2026; it retains the existing thresholds and amounts and does not apply until 2027, and the site is updated as that timeline moves.

Corrections

If you believe something here is wrong, it is worth telling us: the value of a reference site is that it is right. The primary sources are all linked so a correction can be checked against the law, not against an opinion.