Does EU 261/2004 compensation apply if delayed by the border check?

8/26/2019 12:45:01 AM

EU261 does NOT apply in situations like this.

From the regulation itself, EU261 covers :

  1. This Regulation establishes, under the conditions specified herein, minimum rights for passengers when:

(a) they are denied boarding against their will;

(b) their flight is cancelled;

(c) their flight is delayed.

Very clearly none of those cover things like Border delays.

There is however a gray area here – what happens if your flight was delayed, AND there were delays at the border, and the combination of these two factors cause you to miss a connection. This situation is not well covered by the legislation, and normally airlines will state that it would not be covered unless the inbound delay was sufficient to cause you to miss the connection on it’s own.

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