Can AI tell me if I am entitled to flight delay compensation?

It can organise the facts and compare them with the official guidance you provide, but it cannot guarantee the legal outcome. The route, operating airline, arrival delay and reason for the disruption can all affect the claim.

Can ChatGPT write my flight delay compensation claim?

Yes, it can draft a clear request using your booking details, delay evidence and the airline's explanation. Check every fact against your records before submitting it through the airline's official process.

What evidence do I need for a delayed flight claim?

Gather your booking confirmation, boarding pass, flight details, scheduled and actual arrival times, airline messages and any explanation of the disruption. AI can turn those materials into a checklist, but it cannot create evidence that you do not have.

Should I use a solicitor for a delayed flight compensation claim?

A straightforward claim can usually start with the airline's own process and official guidance. This is not professional advice, and a solicitor is appropriate for a serious disputed case, formal proceedings or a claim involving wider losses.

YES

As of 13 August 2026, AI can claim compensation for a delayed 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 supplied tool data lists no price for a solicitor or flight-compensation claims service.

If this goes wrong, you may submit an inaccurate claim, miss a useful argument or accept the airline's refusal without understanding the reason.

What to actually do

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.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice

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

Open your booking confirmation and gather the flight number, route, operating airline, scheduled arrival time and date shown on the booking.
Gather your boarding pass, airline messages, airport notices and any records showing when you reached the destination, then write down the actual arrival time and the stated reason for the delay.
Open the relevant GOV.UK guidance and the airline's official compensation or complaints page, and save or copy the sections that apply to your flight.
Paste the facts, documents and copied official guidance into a chatbot with the prompt, asking it to separate verified facts from missing information.
Compare the draft assessment with your booking, messages and arrival record, and remove every statement that you cannot support from those records.
Submit the checked complaint through the airline's official claim or complaints process with copies of the supporting documents, then keep the submission and response.

Prompt

Help me prepare a UK flight-delay compensation claim. This is not professional advice and you must not present uncertain legal conclusions as facts.

Use only the information I provide and any official guidance text or links I paste. Do not invent missing facts, delay times, causes, documents, deadlines or compensation amounts. First separate the known facts from assumptions and missing information. Then:
1. List the facts and documents needed to assess the claim.
2. Explain which parts may affect eligibility, including the flight route, operating airline, delay on arrival and stated cause of disruption.
3. Identify what I should check against current GOV.UK guidance and the airline's own claim process.
4. Give a cautious assessment using "supported", "unclear" or "not supported" for each important point, without pretending to make a final legal determination.
5. Draft a concise complaint requesting compensation or a reasoned explanation, using only verified facts.
6. Add a checklist of attachments and questions to ask if the airline refuses.

My details:
Flight date: [date]
Flight number: [flight number]
Departure airport and country: [departure]
Arrival airport and country: [arrival]
Operating airline: [airline]
Booked airline, if different: [airline]
Scheduled arrival time: [time]
Actual arrival time: [time]
What the airline said caused the disruption: [reason or "not provided"]
What happened and when: [brief account]
Documents and messages available: [list]
Airline response so far: [response or "none"]
Official guidance or airline policy to check: [paste text or links]

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

What it gets wrong

AI cannot prove the actual arrival time or the cause of the disruption when the airline's records and your account conflict.
AI cannot reliably resolve ambiguous exceptions without the relevant evidence and current interpretation of the rules.
AI cannot compel the airline to pay or take responsibility for the claim after you submit it.
AI cannot replace a solicitor when the claim is high value, disputed, part of wider travel loss or moving towards formal proceedings.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, real time truth and legal accountability.

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.

Axis	Score (0–2)
Output	2
Inputs	2
Verification	1
Liability	1
Effort delta	2
Total	8 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI tell me if I am entitled to flight delay compensation?: It can organise the facts and compare them with the official guidance you provide, but it cannot guarantee the legal outcome. The route, operating airline, arrival delay and reason for the disruption can all affect the claim.
Can ChatGPT write my flight delay compensation claim?: Yes, it can draft a clear request using your booking details, delay evidence and the airline's explanation. Check every fact against your records before submitting it through the airline's official process.
What evidence do I need for a delayed flight claim?: Gather your booking confirmation, boarding pass, flight details, scheduled and actual arrival times, airline messages and any explanation of the disruption. AI can turn those materials into a checklist, but it cannot create evidence that you do not have.
Should I use a solicitor for a delayed flight compensation claim?: A straightforward claim can usually start with the airline's own process and official guidance. This is not professional advice, and a solicitor is appropriate for a serious disputed case, formal proceedings or a claim involving wider losses.

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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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