By Richard Jasinski·Updated 4 November 2026
A claim goes through five stages: the free check, signing up, the airline's answer, court if the airline refuses and payout. AirHelp, Flightright, Skycop, MYFLYRIGHT and AirAdvisor each say on their own websites what happens at each one.
After a free check of a few minutes, you sign an assignment or power of attorney and the company writes to the airline. Most give no fixed time for the airline's answer. If it refuses, all five can go to court through lawyers; they pay you by bank transfer once the airline pays them, minus their fee, though MYFLYRIGHT also offers a payout before that, at its discretion.
Every one of the five checks a flight for free, from its number and date.
To act for you, the company needs your documents and a signed assignment or power of attorney.
The company then claims from the airline; how long that takes is the question most give no fixed answer to.
If the airline refuses, the company can take it to court through its lawyers, at its own cost if it loses.
Once the airline pays the company, it passes the money on, minus its fee; MYFLYRIGHT can also pay before the airline does, at its discretion.
Most of the five give no fixed time. MYFLYRIGHT says 4 to 10 weeks on average and AirAdvisor's Wizz Air page 4-6 weeks; court can add months or years.
Yes at four of the five: an assignment or power of attorney, so the company can claim in its own name or yours. AirAdvisor's pages do not mention one.
All five say they can take the airline to court through lawyers; Flightright adds a 14% surcharge on success and Skycop charges its 50% legal proceedings fee.
Of the claims companies that say how to cancel, almost all give 14 days from signing; the cancelling page sets out each company's terms.
None of the five asks for money up front; each takes its fee from the compensation once the airline pays.
No. With an assignment the company claims in its own name; with a power of attorney it claims in yours. Each line says which the company asks for.
Yes. You can claim from the airline directly and for free; in the UK or EU you can go on to the national enforcement body or an approved dispute scheme if the airline refuses.
They are five large claims companies in the table with facts on all five stages; none paid to be here.
Each line was read on 20 October 2026 from the company's own website.
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Built to answer the question in the main heading. What is shown: what each claims company published on its own website, read on 20 October 2026, from the Uncompromised Travel flight compensation table. Left out: companies whose websites would not open, a company whose activities were taken over by another, a company whose address opens another company's site, services that pass the claim to other companies and one company whose fee page is being re-read. Five companies are shown, not every company in the table. How this site earns · How we work.
Richard Jasinski · Uncompromised Travel · written from Valencia · first published 4 November 2026 · updated 4 November 2026
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