Los Angeles Airport Flight Delays
or Cancellations

Los Angeles Airport Flight Delays

Los Angeles International Airport or LAX Airport is one of the busiest and largest airport of California, US. It handles more than 80 million passengers and 2 million cargo tons every year.

Due to heavy passengers’ traffic, bad weather conditions and aircrafts movements, LAX Airport flights, often gets delayed or are cancelled. Air passengers often wonder whether they can get any compensation for it.

According to EC Regulation 261/2004, passengers’ are eligible to claim compensation, if flight delays for more than 3 hours on arrivals, or was cancelled without prior notice of at least 7 days, or for denied boarding incidents.

Does EC Regulation 261/2004 Applicable For LAX Airport Flights?

No matter from whichever country you belongs to, or whatever citizenship you had, if you travel to or from any of the European destination with EU airlines flights, you are eligible to claim compensation.

If you had booked Non-EU Airline flight ticket, then the following criteria should meet to claim compensation:

• Flight should have been departed from an EU Airport (in case of delays on arrival at LAX Airport)
• Flight should be scheduled to depart from an EU Airport (if cancelled or you were denied boarding)
• Flight should have been delayed for more than 3 hours. (even applicable for re-scheduled flights or an alternate flight)
• Flight should not have been delayed or cancelled due to extraordinary circumstances (such as extreme bad weather or tsunami)

Los Angeles Airport Flight Delay / Cancellation / Denied Boarding Problems

According to flight delay statistics, Los Angeles Airport (LAX) has a record of 81.6% flights arriving on time and 81.3% flights departing on time from the airport. Airport delays because of the weather are as low as 0.45% and cancellation of flights is also very low i.e. 1.11%.

Are you planning to travel from Los Angeles Airport? Then it is advisable for you to plan some more time in advance. Though Los Angeles Airport is amongst the most punctual airports in the USA, flights from or to Los Angeles Airport often get delayed or cancelled due to passenger traffic, bad weather, cargo load, or aircraft delay.

European Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004, it allows air passengers to claim flight delay compensation, cancellations or denied boarding problems, when the airline is responsible for it.

How much can I claim for Los Angeles Airport delayed flight?

The amount of compensation varies between 250 to 600 Euros depending upon the length of the delay and distance of your flight.

The table below shows the receivable compensation that you can request for Los Angeles delay claim:

Flight departure delays

If there’s a delay at departure, you are eligible for the “Right to Care.” The airlines must offer:

For 5+ Hours of Flight Delays

Am I Eligible To Claim Compensation?

EC Regulation 261/2004 is a European Union Regulation, it applies to EU air carriers. You do not have to be an EU citizen to claim flight compensation.

This means that you can claim on flights departing from any airport located in the EU (with any airline) or arriving in the EU (with an EU airline).

Thus, you are eligible to claim for Los Angeles Airport flight delays or cancellations, if flight was from an EU Airport.

How To Claim Flight Delay Or Cancellation Compensation?

You can check your flights status at LAX Airport flight tracker, information received from the tracker can help you to make a claim. You just need to provide us your airlines flight details like flight number and flight date (available on flight itinerary or boarding pass) and reason for delays or cancellations.

Our claim expert team helps you to understand your rights and file the case on your behalf and save you from complicated legal procedures. We have access to flight information such as the time by which the flight was delayed, the reason for flight cancellation, actual flights departure and arrival time, etc. making us more likely to win.

Flight compensation amount can vary from 250€ to 600€, depending upon flight distance. Our free flight compensation checker tool can help you to calculate the exact compensation amount, to claim from airline. Our claim professionals takes your case on “No Win-No Fee” base and provide compensation in right time. So it’s never late, claim for your flight compensation today.

Claim Yourself Los Angeles Airport Flight Compensation

If your flight delays, gets canceled, or you’re denied boarding, you can use our free claim letter template to write the letter to the airline to claim compensation.

Passengers are often unaware of the rules and regulations and end up claiming a very futile amount compared to what they are entitled to claim. Claim Flights has free online flight compensation checker tool which calculates the exact compensation amount airlines owe you.

You can claim flight compensation with our assistance by filling the claim form. You may need to enter further details about yourself & co-passengers for whom you would like to claim the compensation.

Our claim expert team can file the claim on behalf of you and pursue it with the airlines. Air passengers are charged only in case their case is valid.

Our fees are significantly less as compared with other claim companies. You can compare the claimable compensation amount provided by us with other claim companies. Claim Flights takes up your case on a No Win-No Fee basis and makes sure that you get the right amount in time.

Useful Information about Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles Airport is the primary and busiest airport of California.

It is the 2nd busiest airport in the United States and one of the largest and busiest airport in the world.

It operates as a hub for five major airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Atlas Air.

Los Angeles Airport is most popularly known by its IATA code “LAX”.