The EUROPEAN union is discussing the deterioration in compensation for a flight delay

The Reuters news agency which has been part of the document, that the council of the EU, Croatia has produced. The documents stated that Croatia wants the EUROPEAN union to extend the length of time in which a passenger may be entitled to compensation for a delayed or cancelled flight.

get up to about 6,000 dollars on a flight is delayed more than three hours or if the flight is cancelled less than 14 days prior to departure.

According to Reuters, to the presidency of the level of compensation will be maintained, however, that the time period should be extended. How much longer the delay will be before a compensation is to be paid out of the writing of it.

in the Past, the European commission wanted to raise the level of the three-hour to five hours, which, however, did not go through, as it was in 2013.

< a worsening of the compensation of the ”growing financial burden”, which affects the airlines, in line with an increasing number of flights to be delayed.

the Number of cancellations rose by 70 per cent between the years 2011 and 2018, slightly affecting 17.6 million passengers by 2018. During the same period, the increase in the number of delayed flights by 56 percent, which reduced by 16.5 million tons in the same year, according to a new study by the European commission.

of Croatia, a proposal will be discussed among EUROPEAN union countries over the next couple of weeks.