A flood of compensation claims?

TUI, BA and easyJet face flood of compensation claims

TUI Travel, British Airways and easyJet could be forced to pay passengers millions of pounds after losing a two year legal battle to overthrow a European law that states they must pay passengers for long delays.

Interesting article, but like it says atthe bottom, this ruling won't make any difference to how difficult claiming can be
Companies will depend on the average person not having the will or stamina to argue with the operators v(

Using the industry's own data, the percentage of flights that fall into the category of "delayed" for the purposes of EU261/2004 is estimated at 0.15% - hardly a deluge. There may be an initial surge due to (most) airlines having refused claims until this judgement was handed down today.