Built by a traveler, not a corporation

I've been to 85+ countries. Over the years I've had my share of cancelled flights, multi-hour delays, and missed connections — the kind of disruptions that throw off an entire trip. Most of the time, I absorbed the loss and moved on. It didn't occur to me that I was often legally owed money.

When I finally looked into it, I discovered that EU Regulation 261/2004 entitles passengers to up to €600 in compensation for disrupted flights — and similar laws exist in the UK, Canada, and Turkey. The regulations are clear. The amounts are specific. But airlines don't exactly put up signs advertising what you're owed, and the claims process is intentionally opaque. They count on passengers not knowing their rights.

The existing claims companies will handle it for you — but they charge 35–50% of whatever they recover. For what is often a straightforward letter-writing process, that felt excessive. So I built FlightComp: a tool that checks your eligibility for free and helps you claim what you're owed — either with a $19 DIY Claims Kit you send yourself, or through our managed service at 25%, the lowest fee in the market.

My background: MBA from Yale School of Management, former management consultant at Boston Consulting Group, prior roles at the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. I built FlightComp because I believe passengers deserve better tools and fairer fees — not because there's a shortage of claims companies, but because the existing ones are too expensive and too opaque.