Originally Posted by
Smiley90
if you make a booking where a measly 30min delay ruins your travel plans that's not the airline's fault... They offered you another flight ONLY 5 hours later, that's the best possible outcome here. So no, if everyone with a 30min delay got compensation that'd be a huge number of flights. Make bookings with longer layovers...?
At least within the reach of EC261 this statement is not correct. If the OP's flight US-EU (i. e. more than 3500 km) was delayed and this caused the airline to rebook him on another flight resulting in a delay at the final destination of more than 4 hours, according to articles 6 and 7 of EC261 OP has the right to EUR 600,- compensation.