# About Air Travel Rights: 5 passenger-rights regimes Source: https://airtravelrights.com/about/ > About Air Travel Rights: more than 130 sourced pages across 5 passenger-rights regimes, and what this site deliberately is not. # About this site Air Travel Rights sets out what 5 passenger-rights regimes require: EU261, UK261, Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations, US Department of Transportation rules and the Montreal Convention. Every figure here traces to the regulation or regulator that made it, dated to when it was checked. This page covers what it is, who writes it, and how to use it. ## What is this site? Air Travel Rights is a reference site of more than 180 published pages setting out what 5 passenger-rights regimes require, each sourced to the regulation or regulator itself. It holds no company name, no office and no named staff. The checks behind every page are fixed rules, applied the same way every time, never one person's judgement. That total runs across more than [60 individual airline pages](https://airtravelrights.com/airlines/), 30 airport pages, 7 datasets on the data hub, each with its own CSV, and 5 regime hubs, one for each law the site covers. The Spirit Airlines page is written for a carrier that ceased operations on 2 May 2026: it covers what happens to a ticket and a refund claim in wind-down, not a claim route that no longer exists. No airline, claim company or law firm commissioned this site. None reviews a page before it goes live either; that process is set out in full at [editorial policy](https://airtravelrights.com/editorial-policy/) and [how we verify](https://airtravelrights.com/how-we-verify/). Start at the regime, not the airline's name. What applies depends on where you departed, where you arrived and which company actually operated the flight. ## Which rules does the site cover, and where do they apply? 5 regimes set the rules this site publishes: EU261, its UK-retained form (UK261), Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations, US Department of Transportation rules, and the Montreal Convention on international carriage. Each one covers a different departure point, arrival point and carrier. None is ever converted into another regime's currency. EU261 covers any carrier's flight departing an EU airport, plus a Community carrier's flight arriving in the EU from outside it, paying €250 to €600 depending on distance. UK261 covers any carrier's flight departing a UK airport, plus a UK or Community carrier's flight arriving in the UK, paying £220 to £520. Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations apply to flights to, from and within Canada, paying up to C$1,000 for a large carrier's delay of 9 hours or more. US federal law sets no delay or cancellation compensation at all. The only compensation Department of Transportation rules require is for denied boarding, up to $2,150; their other protections are refund, baggage and tarmac-delay rules. The Montreal Convention sets international liability limits in Special Drawing Rights, last revised on 28 December 2024. A revision to EU261 has been adopted. It is still unpublished in the Official Journal, so it changes nothing here yet. Source: EU261 art. 3(1)(a)-(b), art. 7(1)(a)-(c) - eur-lex.europa.eu; UK261 art. 3(1), art. 7(1) as substituted by SI 2019/278 - legislation.gov.uk; Air Passenger Protection Regulations s.19(1)(a) - laws-lois.justice.gc.ca; DOT Fly Rights - transportation.gov; ICAO 2024 revised Montreal Convention limits - icao.int; EU261 amendment procedure 2013/0072(COD) - oeil.europarl.europa.eu; checked 2026-09-15. Check [which law covers my flight](https://airtravelrights.com/which-law-covers-my-flight/) before you open any airline-specific page: the same airline can sit under a different regime on a different route. ## Who writes the pages, and who checks them? 1 byline appears on every page this site publishes: the Air Travel Rights editorial team, with no individual author, persona or "reviewed by" credit anywhere. The checks each page passes are fixed rules applied the same way to every page, never one writer's judgement ([Editorial policy](https://airtravelrights.com/editorial-policy/)). Drafting starts with AI assistance working only from sourced facts, never from a model's own memory of the topic. Before a page goes live it passes 3 checks: an automated structure check, a citation check against 2 closed case-law allow-lists, and a line-by-line audit of every figure against the fact base's Verified rows. A page that fails any of the 3 goes back for another pass, not out to readers with a caveat attached instead. The organisation takes responsibility for that audit, not an individual reviewer. Full detail on both processes sits at [editorial policy](https://airtravelrights.com/editorial-policy/) and [how we verify](https://airtravelrights.com/how-we-verify/). Found a figure that looks wrong? Report it at [corrections](https://airtravelrights.com/corrections/) rather than assuming the page is right because it cites a source. ## What this site is not 3 things readers mistake this site for: a law firm, a claim company and an airline's own complaints desk. It is none of the 3. Each does something this site won't: none of them publishes the rule itself instead of acting on it for you. A law firm gives advice on your specific facts and can represent you in a dispute. This site publishes what a regulation says in general and never assesses your individual case. A [claim company](https://airtravelrights.com/claim-companies-compared/) files a claim on your behalf, negotiates with the airline and takes a share of what you are eventually paid. This site files nothing for anyone and holds no booking reference, passenger name or payment detail. An airline's own complaints desk controls your booking, your refund and your specific complaint. This site is not affiliated with any airline and cannot open, escalate or influence a complaint with one. This site instead publishes the regulation, the regulator and the deadline that apply. Act on that yourself, or brief whichever of the three you choose. If you want your specific claim assessed, [contact](https://airtravelrights.com/contact/) names the regulator or scheme for each regime, and what each one can and cannot make an airline do. ## How is the site kept current when the law changes? 5 named triggers force a re-check of the pages they affect: EU261's revision reaching the Official Journal, an APPR amendment, the Department of Transportation's 2-yearly denied-boarding review, a CAA ADR-list update, and an ICAO revision of the Montreal Convention limits ([How we verify](https://airtravelrights.com/how-we-verify/)). None of those triggers has fired for every page at once. The Montreal Convention's current limits took effect on 28 December 2024, and the last full check of every fact on this site was 15 September 2026. A rule that is proposed, not yet in force, changes nothing here. It is labelled an upcoming change and kept out of every table and the compensation calculator until it actually applies. EU261's own revision is the current example: adopted at third reading, still unpublished in the Official Journal. When a trigger fires, the affected page is re-checked against the primary source itself, not a summary of it. Its checked date then moves forward to match. Source: EU261 amendment procedure 2013/0072(COD) - oeil.europarl.europa.eu; 14 CFR 250.5(e) - ecfr.gov; ICAO 2024 revised Montreal Convention limits - icao.int; checked 2026-09-15. Read the checked date under any Source line before you rely on the figure above it; the full re-check method sits at [how we verify](https://airtravelrights.com/how-we-verify/). ## How do you use this site to run your own claim? 4 steps run through every claim this site describes. Find which of the 5 regimes covers your flight, run the numbers through the compensation calculator, put your claim to the airline first, and escalate to the named regulator or scheme only once it refuses or stays silent. Start at [which law covers my flight](https://airtravelrights.com/which-law-covers-my-flight/) first. It works out the regime from your departure airport, your arrival airport and the airline that actually operated it, not necessarily the one you booked through. From there, the [compensation calculator](https://airtravelrights.com/compensation-calculator/) turns your flight details into an amount in the regime's own currency, or "not eligible", with its legal source attached to the result. Every regime requires you to put your claim to the airline itself first. Only then will any regulator or scheme look at it. Each regime's own pages name the body to escalate to next, and what it can and cannot make the airline do. This site files no claim for you, and holds nothing you send beyond what answers a general question about the rules. Keep a written record of what you sent the airline and when: every escalation route this site describes asks for that record before it will accept a complaint. ## Sources - Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 (EU261) - [eur-lex.europa.eu](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32004R0261), checked 2026-09-15. - Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 as it forms part of UK domestic law (UK261) - [legislation.gov.uk](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/261/contents), checked 2026-09-15. - EU261 amendment procedure 2013/0072(COD) - [oeil.europarl.europa.eu](https://oeil.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file/pdf?reference=2013%2F0072%28COD%29), checked 2026-09-15. - Air Passenger Protection Regulations (SOR/2019-150) - [laws-lois.justice.gc.ca](https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2019-150/FullText.html), checked 2026-09-15. - US DOT Fly Rights - [transportation.gov](https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/fly-rights), checked 2026-09-15. - 14 CFR 250.5 (denied-boarding compensation) - [ecfr.gov](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/part-250/section-250.5), checked 2026-09-15. - ICAO 2024 revised limits of liability under the Montreal Convention - [icao.int](https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/secretariat/legal/LEB%20Treaty%20Collection%20Documents/2024_Revised_Limits_of_Liability_Under_the_Montreal_Convention_of_1999_en.pdf), checked 2026-09-15. - Spirit Airlines operating-status reports - [npr.org](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/02/nx-s1-5807933/spirit-airlines-ceases-operations-folds), [cnn.com](https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/02/business/spirit-to-halt-all-flights), checked 2026-09-15.