Antalya flight delay and cancellation compensation

Antalya flight delay and cancellation: your rights

Antalya is Turkey's holiday capital and one of the busiest seasonal airports anywhere, flying millions of northern Europeans in and out each summer.

Turkey is not in the EU, and that decides everything about coverage here. The direction you fly, and the airline that flies you, settle whether the regulation reaches your flight at all.

Does EU261 cover a flight from Antalya?

Only on the right airline.

• Flying from Europe to Antalya — EU261 applies, whoever operates it, because the flight left an EU airport.
• Flying to Europe on an EU or EEA airline — EU261 applies, because an EU carrier is bringing you into the EU.
• Flying to Europe on Turkish Airlines, Pegasus, AJet or SunExpress — EU261 does not apply.

A UK departure or arrival follows the same shape under UK261, with a UK airline in place of an EU one.

So one return trip can be covered in one direction and not the other, on the same booking.

How much a covered flight is worth

The sums are fixed by distance, never by the fare: €250 up to 1,500 km, €400 between 1,500 and 3,500 km, and €600 beyond.

Most routes between Antalya and northern Europe run about 3,000 km, which puts them in the middle band.

A cancellation inside fourteen days pays the same, and so does denied boarding.

What to do on the leg EU261 cannot reach

It is still worth writing. The Montreal Convention covers costs a delay actually caused you, and the airline's own conditions of carriage may promise meals and a hotel.

Keep the boarding pass, every receipt and any message the airline sent. Ask for the reason in writing before you leave the airport.

How to claim Antalya flight delay compensation

Start with the flight itself. Our free flight check reads the recorded departure and arrival times for your flight from Antalya and tells you which band it falls in.

Your Antalya compensation claim turns on two things: the arrival time, and the reason the airline gives.

For a late arrival, read the flight delay compensation guide. For a flight that never flew, read the cancellation compensation guide. It covers Antalya cancellation compensation too. Has the airline said no? The case law summary sets out what the courts make of the usual excuses.