When Airlines Screw Up Your Flight, AirHelp (YC W14) Gets You Paid

Re:When Airlines Screw Up Your Flight, AirHelp (YC W14) Gets... by sadfaceunread on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @03:22PM (#7349604)

The power of attorney part is a little scary. I understand they really have to handle the whole process to ensure they get paid at the end, but I surely don't take giving someone power of attorney lightly.

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Re:When Airlines Screw Up Your Flight, AirHelp (YC W14) Gets... by bushido on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @07:17PM (#7350954)

It will most definitely be a limited power of attorney for this event only. They should have called it "Representative Appointment Form" like other industries do.

The latter is technically a limited power of attorney too.

Edit: The following is from their EU POA form:

   This power of attorney shall become effective on the day of signature and shall expire if revoked by me/us in writing. This document shall be construed and interpreted as a general power of attorney and my/our Agent shall have full authority to act on my/our behalf in relation to my/our claims resulting from disruptions of flights pursuant to EU Regulation 261/04. I/we furthermore grant my/our Agent the authority to:

   *(1) undertake all appropriate legal – judicial and extrajudicial – measures appropriate to collect my/our claim(s) from the airline until the claim is fully settled;*

   *(2) collect and receive payments on my/our behalf.*

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Re:When Airlines Screw Up Your Flight, AirHelp (YC W14) Gets... by bertil on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @09:55PM (#7351582)

Could a lawyer express an informed opinion about that?

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Re:When Airlines Screw Up Your Flight, AirHelp (YC W14) Gets... by kohanz on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @04:32PM (#7350098)

My thoughts as well. Can POA be limited to a specific area or case (e.g. just for flight reimbursement)?

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Re:When Airlines Screw Up Your Flight, AirHelp (YC W14) Gets... by jacobkg on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @04:36PM (#7350129)

"A 'specific' power of attorney imposes limits upon the named representative, and may restrict the scope of that person's powers to a single type of conduct or a single transaction."

http://www.expertlaw.com/library/estate_planning/power_of_at...

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Re:When Airlines Screw Up Your Flight, AirHelp (YC W14) Gets... by zyxley on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @05:02PM (#7350268)

From getairhelp.com:

> The Power Of Attorney - POA for short - authorises AirHelp to undertake all appropriate legal (judicial and extrajudicial) measures to collect the compensation from the airline on your behalf.

It's a bit weird the article mentions it in the general case if AirHelp is only asking for it in regards to that specific area.

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