What the United States regime publishes about how much the payment is, quoted verbatim from 14 CFR 250.5, Amount of denied boarding compensation (eCFR) and dated.
the instrument quoted here
eCFR
of the regimes read carry a rule on this question
2/2
the day these pages were read
2026-09-10
The instrument's own words
Compensation shall be at least 400 percent of the fare to the passenger's destination or first stopover, or $2,150, whichever is lower
That passage is the whole of what eCFR publishes on this point on the section cited. It is reproduced here for reporting and comment; it is not advice, and it does not decide your claim.
(a) £220 for all flights of 1500 kilometres or less; (b) £350 for all flights between 1500 and 3500 kilometres; (c) £520 for all flights not falling under (a) or (b).
Side by side, each in its own instrument's words. Where the two regimes differ, the difference is the point: a passenger flying between them can be covered by one and not the other on the same journey.
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This quotation was taken from 14 CFR 250.5, Amount of denied boarding compensation (eCFR) on September 2026, and the text of that page as it read that day is kept so the quotation can be checked. eCFR publishes it; this site only quotes it.
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eCFR on how much the payment is in United States: “Compensation shall be at least 400 percent of the fare to the passenger's destination or first stopover, or $2,150, whichever is lower” (FlightDelayHQ Air Passenger Entitlement Index).
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