YES

As of 13 August 2026, AI can claim compensation for a cancelled flight.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsThe available tool data does not provide a price for a solicitor or flight-compensation service.

If this goes wrong: you send an inaccurate claim, accept too little or miss the route that could have taken the dispute further.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the airline's cancellation message, booking confirmation and any messages about replacement flights, refunds or expenses, then save copies.
    2. Write down the scheduled flight details, when you were notified, the reason the airline gave, what happened next and every expense with its receipt.
    3. Paste the prompt and your factual timeline into a chatbot, then attach or paste the relevant documents with booking references and payment details redacted where they are not needed.
    4. Answer the chatbot's questions using only facts shown in your records, and ask it to identify the current GOV.UK or official source for each legal or procedural point.
    5. Compare its proposed eligibility, amounts and deadlines against the cited official source and your documents; delete any statement that is not supported by both.
    6. Open the airline's complaints or compensation page, paste in the checked draft, attach the evidence it requests and keep the submission confirmation.
    7. If the airline rejects the claim or the facts are disputed, check the relevant approved dispute-resolution or official process and consult a solicitor for a serious or complicated case.

    Prompt

    Help me prepare a claim about a cancelled flight under the rules that may apply to a UK passenger. This is not professional advice. Do not decide that I am entitled to compensation unless the facts and a current official source support that conclusion. Separate possible compensation from my rights to rerouting, a refund, care or reimbursement of reasonable expenses. Ask me for any missing facts before reaching a view, including the airline, departure and arrival airports, scheduled and actual dates and times, booking reference, when I was told about the cancellation, the stated reason, whether I accepted a refund or alternative flight, and the expenses I paid. Use only the evidence I provide and current GOV.UK or other official sources that you can identify. Do not invent facts, deadlines, amounts, legal tests or sources. Produce: (1) a short factual timeline, (2) the documents and evidence still needed, (3) a cautious explanation of which parts of the claim may apply and why, (4) a calculation only where every input is supported and the applicable current rule is identified, (5) a clear draft complaint to the airline, and (6) a submission checklist. Mark every uncertain point and tell me exactly what I must verify before sending. If the case involves a serious financial loss, injury, discrimination, disputed evidence or a complicated exceptional-circumstances argument, tell me to consult a solicitor or the relevant official dispute-resolution process.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, legal accountability and verification cost.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total8 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI write a compensation claim for a cancelled flight?
Yes. It can organise your evidence, identify missing information and draft a complaint to the airline. Check every factual statement, legal point and calculation against your records and a current official source before sending.
Can I claim compensation if my flight was cancelled?
Possibly, depending on the flight, notice, reason for cancellation and what the airline offered. AI can structure the questions and evidence, but it cannot establish disputed facts or replace a solicitor's assessment.
What evidence do I need for a cancelled flight claim?
Gather the booking confirmation, cancellation notice, airline explanation, replacement-flight or refund records, receipts for relevant expenses and your communications with the airline. Ask AI to turn these into a timeline and evidence checklist, then compare the checklist with the airline's current requirements.
What should I do if the airline rejects my cancelled flight claim?
Read the rejection carefully, preserve the evidence and check whether the airline names an approved dispute-resolution process or another official route. A serious or complicated case needs a solicitor, and this is not professional advice.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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