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Old Jan 31, 2026 | 9:32 pm
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Originally Posted by KARFA
If that’s your definition of automatic, that’s clearly not the DoT process in this case either since the OP has received no such email. The OP would have to actively file a complaint.
Sorry, how does this make airlines system ‘automatic’ as you put it, when payment is made, after the customer puts in a claim?

I don’t care about DoT; how is a claim automatic if the customer has to put in a claim, to receive payment?

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