Those on short-haul flights will not be compensated until they are delayed for four hours or more under the new plans.
Long-haul flight compensation begins from six hours.
Currently. passengers in the EU are compensated after a three-hour delay for short haul flights.
The EU is also making changes to the amount of delay compensation.
The short-haul flight compensation goes from €250 to €300, but will be reduced from €600 to €500 on long haul.
Airlines for Europe (A4E) had lobbied for even longer before compensation kicks in.
Ourania Georgoutsakou, the A4E managing director, said: “Rather than providing delay thresholds of five and nine hours that would save up to 70% of rescuable cancelled flights, member states have diluted the European Commission’s original proposal.”
The EU’s initial proposal was to significantly extend the threshold to five hours for short-haul flights and nine hours for long-haul.
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