Did you miss your connecting flight due to delay on your first leg? Let me explain your rights as stated in EU regulation 261 of 2004. You may be entitled to compensation if your arrival delay your end destination exceeds three hours. You're unfortunately not entitled to compensation if the misconnection was a direct result of extraordinary circumstances such as poor weather conditions, emergency landings, terrorism and strikes. So if the reason for the misconnection was not one of the previous mentioned conditions, you're entitled to compensation. The amount of compensation is based on the distance of your flight rather than the cost of the flight. Within the EU, you're entitled to 250 euros for flights up to 1500 kilometres or 400 euros for flights exceeding 1500 kilometres. If your flight is partly outside the EU, you're entitled to compensation when your flight is from the EU or from outside the EU to the EU with a European airline. Your compensation is 250 euros for flights up to 1500 kilometres, 400 for flights between 1500 and 3.5 thousand kilometres and 600 for flights exceeding 3.5 thousand kilometres. I'll illustrate with an example. Your flight from London to Doha via Amsterdam is delayed by two hours because of a technical problem. You miss your connection in Amsterdam and arrive a day late in Doha. You are now entitled to 600 euros in compensation. If the delay was caused by fog, for example, you are not entitled to compensation. You are, however, entitled to care during the delay in the form of food, drinks and a hotel stay if needed. Are you in doubt about your entitlements? EU claim investigates more than 13 million flights every single day and combines them with the latest press and weather-related data. You can check your rights for free at our website, EUClaim.co.uk