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“Don’t leave the airport if you get hit,” warns personal finance expert Casper Opala. Instead, find out how the airline that displaced you can obtain compensation.
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The next time you get kicked off an overbooked flight, don’t panic: cool down your planes and get paid.
Personal finance expert Casper Opala shared a little-known trick in a recent Instagram video that could net you “cancelled flight compensation” if you are taken off one plane and put on another.
“Don’t leave the airport if you get hit,” Casper said in his video, which has more than 34,000 views since he posted it late last month, when he was told it would take three hours for his airline to book him a replacement flight.
The first thing you should do is Google “Cancelled flight compensation,” Opala suggested.
Gonna Department of Transportation website (the first link that should appear after the Google search) and look for a table that shows the compensation you are entitled to in relation to the time of delay.
At the beginning of the video, he interpreted a possible conversation with an airline employee who informed him that he had been put on a flight three hours later than his original one. She used this delay as an example to calculate his compensation.
“Since they kicked me off my flight and the next flight they can put me on is in three hours, they owe me 400% of my one-way ticket,” he said.
“Because I paid $300 for my one-way flight, they now owe me $1,200 in cash compensation.”
He stressed the importance of not leaving the airport because “the airline must pay your compensation on the same day the incident occurred.”
He also told his followers that people kicked off flights are not required to pay additional funds for the rebooked flight.”
Commenters on his video thanked him for his professional advice.
“Wow, that’s good to know, thanks 👌,” one wrote.
good to know ! I wish I had known in July…lol,” said another.
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