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CHANGELOG

What changed in air passenger rights, and when

16 dated entries covering the judgments, the legislation and our own rule set versions that changed what a flight compensation claim is worth. The most recent is 7 August 2026. Rule set v6 is the version currently driving every figure on this site.

REVIEWED AGAINST RULE SET V6 AND THE CITED PRIMARY SOURCES · UPDATED 7 AUGUST 2026

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Rotating an updated stamp on an unchanged page is the cheapest trick in this industry and the easiest to detect. This is the alternative: a dated record of changes that actually happened, each pointing at the page it changed.

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7 AUGUST 2026 · SITE

North American carriers accepted: United, Delta, American, JetBlue, Air Canada, WestJet, Air Transat

Rule set v6 adds the North American carriers with scheduled Europe service to the accepted list. A US or Canadian airline departing the EU or UK is inside EC 261 or UK 261 whatever its nationality, and those claims are now taken through the funnel instead of referred to the official routes. The territorial rule is unchanged: the same carrier arriving in the EU or UK from outside remains out of scope, as Art. 3(1)(b) provides. Airline pages with CAA punctuality records were added for the six carriers in the current data.

7 AUGUST 2026 · CASE LAW

Rulings library doubled: 13 further judgments, each read before it was written

Thirteen judgments joined the library, including the December 2021 pair on schedule changes (Corendon and Airhelp v Laudamotion), the 2023 TAP ruling on crew death, the airport infrastructure line from SATA and Touristic Aviation, and Wirth on who the operating carrier is. Every holding restates the operative part of a document fetched during authoring, and 27 new answer pages tie into them.

Case C-263/20 Airhelp v Laudamotion, judgment of 21 December 2021 (ECLI:EU:C:2021:1039) · Joined Cases C-156/22 to C-158/22 TAP Portugal v flightright and Myflyright, judgment of 11 May 2023 (ECLI:EU:C:2023:393)

7 AUGUST 2026 · DATA

CAA punctuality data published: route pages, airline records, and a hub

The UK Civil Aviation Authority's May 2026 punctuality statistics now power a route by route data estate and real airline pages for the top ten UK market carriers. Each page shows the share of flights recorded past the three hour compensation line, with the CAA referenced on every page and the measurement caveat stated rather than hidden.

7 AUGUST 2026 · DATA

Germany's limitation row upgraded to statute verified

BGB paragraphs 195 and 199 were fetched and read on the federal gesetze-im-internet.de service: the standard three year period, running from the end of the year in which the claim arose, matches what the rule set has encoded since v2. The wave 1 conflict note on the German row is resolved; the row now cites the code itself.

7 AUGUST 2026 · SITE

Answer library, rulings library and limitation map published

The first public content estate went up: one page per question, one page per judgment, and the country by country limitation map generated from the active rule set. Every figure on these pages is read from the rule set rather than written by hand, and every legal statement carries a primary source.

7 AUGUST 2026 · DATA

Rule set published as an open dataset

Rule set v6 is now downloadable as JSON, with the distance bands, thresholds, eligibility gates and the full limitation map in the form the engine actually evaluates. Publishing the logic is how the numbers on this site can be checked rather than trusted.

18 JULY 2026 · RULE SET

Rule set v6: limitation coverage completed for the EU and EEA

Nine further forums were added, completing coverage of every EU and EEA member state plus the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Where sources conflicted the shorter period was encoded, which is the conservative choice: it refers a claim out earlier rather than holding one that may already be dead. The table is pending counsel review.

18 JULY 2026 · RULE SET

Claims inside the near expiry window refer out instead of being taken on

A claim inside the final 180 days before its limitation bar is referred to a partner rather than accepted. Taking on a claim that has to be filed in court in weeks is not something a no win no fee model can do well, and saying so in the rule data makes the behaviour auditable.

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15 FEBRUARY 2019 · RULE SET

SI 2019/278 fixes the sterling amounts for the retained regulation

The Air Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 substituted sterling figures for the euro figures in Art. 7 of the retained regulation. The amounts were set once and do not track the exchange rate, which is why the two regimes have drifted apart.

The Air Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/278), reg. 8

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