Long-haul flight late or cancelled? That’s €600 each.

Flights over 3,500 km pay the top EU261 amount: €600 per passenger when you land 4+ hours late or are cancelled at short notice, €300 for a 3–4 hour delay. A family of four on Madrid–Bogotá is owed €2,400. With Flyback you pay one €49 fee for all of you, only if the airline pays; an agency at 35% would keep €840.

Which flights count: any flight leaving the EU, whatever the airline. Flights into the EU count only on an EU airline (Iberia, Air Europa, Level, Plus Ultra and others), so Bogotá–Madrid on Avianca isn’t covered, but on Iberia it is.