Recovery & money-finding

Airline compensation service

When a flight covered by EU 261, UK 261, Canada’s APPR, Brazil’s ANAC 400, or Turkey’s SHY rules is cancelled or lands hours late, the airline can owe the passenger up to €600 in cash. Most passengers never claim it because the rules are tedious and the airlines don’t volunteer.

This business checks a passenger’s eligibility and hands them a ready-to-send claim letter with the regulation citations already in place. You charge a flat fee. The engine does the rules work.

The job

A customer gives you their flight number, date, and what happened. You run an eligibility check, and if the claim is real, you generate a claim letter citing the exact articles of the applicable regime. The customer signs it and sends it to the airline themselves. You never take a cut of the payout and you never represent anyone; you prepare documents, they file.

The typical engagement takes you under fifteen minutes. The hard part, knowing six passenger-rights regimes well enough to cite them, is the part the engine carries.

Who it suits

Suits someone who likes small, finishable jobs with a clear yes or no. You need basic customer-service instincts and the discipline to say "no claim here" when the check comes back negative. No travel-industry background required.

Startup cost and tools

What	Cost	Notes
Engine calls per client	~$2.10	One eligibility check ($0.10) plus one claim letter ($2.00) at public catalog prices
A way to take payment	$0–$30/mo	PayPal, Stripe, or a payment link
A simple intake page	$0–$15/mo	A form that collects flight number, date, and route

Engine prices are the live public catalog prices, the same sheet agents pay. No subscription is required to use them.

The licensing question

Drafting a claim letter that the passenger signs and sends is self-help document preparation, and in most places it doesn’t require a license. What does attract regulation is working on contingency (taking a percentage of the award) or representing passengers in disputes; several European countries regulate claim agencies that do exactly that. This blueprint stays flat-fee and stays out of representation on purpose. Check the consumer-services rules where you operate before you charge your first customer.

How the engine does the heavy lifting

The engine knows the six major passenger-rights regimes, checks route and delay facts, and writes letters with the citations already verified. If it can’t support a claim with a real citation, it says so instead of guessing.

TravelPulse · travelpulse.theaslangroupllc.com · openapi.json

/api/rights/check$0.10Flight compensation eligibility — EU261 / UK261 / Canada APPR / Brazil ANAC 400 / Turkey SHY / India DGCA (deterministic)

/api/rights/letter$2.00Citation-backed flight compensation claim letter (6 regimes, ready to send)

/api/travel/disruption$0.25Flight disruption risk for an airport and date

Your first customer in 30 days

Run five eligibility checks on your own past flights and your family’s. Real claims often surface immediately, and a recovered claim of your own is your best marketing story.
Set your flat fee. Services in this lane commonly charge $20 to $50 per letter; your engine cost is about $2.10.
Put up a one-page site: who it’s for, what you charge, what you don’t do (no contingency, no representation).
Tell one frequent-flyer community what you do. Delayed passengers search for help within days of the flight, so answer fresh posts.
Deliver your first three letters at half price in exchange for a testimonial.

Hand this to your assistant

This blueprint has a machine-readable page with the current endpoints, prices, and setup steps. Paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant that can fetch a URL:

I'm reading a Field Guide blueprint for a airline compensation service business. Fetch https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/airline-flight-compensation.json and walk me through it: what the service does, the live engine endpoints and their current catalog prices, the licensing notes as they'd apply where I live, and the first-30-days steps. Then help me decide honestly whether this fits my skills, time, and situation.

Machine page: https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/airline-flight-compensation.json

Start this one

The engines are pay-per-call, no subscription. Agents pay per call over x402 (USDC on Base or Solana). If you're a human, get a starter key: it takes about a minute, includes a $0.25 trial balance, and tops up by card (Stripe) or USDC. No crypto wallet required. Prefer email? Write to info@theaslangroupllc.com with the subject "Starter key: airline-flight-compensation" and we'll provision one by hand, usually the same day.

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