AirHelp is an easy way to get the money people are owed by airlines when flights are disrupted. It allows users to submit their claim though the website and app and takes care of the hassle for the claimant. AirHelp only receives 25 percent of the compensation if the claim is successful. Since its launch in Europe last year, the company has helped “tens of thousands” before expanding their service to US domestic flights. The recent Y Combinator Winter 2014 graduate basically looks at your flight and checks whether you’re legally owed any compensation. Once you give them the power of attorney, they go get your compensation from the airlines. On winning Collision’s Spark Award, “We’re super excited about this – it is a huge honor. We’ve respected everything the organizers of The Summit have done since day one, and now they’re launching in the US and we’re proud to be the first winners of Collision’s Spark Award.” Zilmer continued to say, “It’s another stamp of approval that this is a valid business model and that we have entered into an industry that has been notoriously hard to get into due to high customer acquisition costs and we’re doing something that helps a lot of people.”
