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Baggage — written notice to the carrier

The written notice that preserves the claim. This must reach the carrier within days of the incident or the right to claim is lost entirely — send it before assembling the full claim.

baggage.initial-notice8 languages21-day reply window

What it actually says.

Rendered live from invented facts: A checked bag delayed six days on an international itinerary, with a PIR raised at the airport. The claimant is fictional and the figures are illustrative — your own claim produces its own numbers and its own citations.

The authority in the preview

It cites the article, not the act.

A document has to name the provision it relies on or it gets filed. These are the citations the sample evaluation put into the letter above; a real claim substitutes the ones its own regimes produced.
  1. Montreal Convention, Art. 19Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by AirArt. 19
  2. Montreal Convention, Art. 22(2)Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by AirArt. 22(2) — 1,288 SDR per passenger

Where it comes from

The laws that can produce this document.

A rule module declares the documents its evaluation can render into. These are the regimes in the current catalogue that offer this one — each with its own citations, deadlines and escalation ladder.
Montreal Convention 1999 — carrier liability for baggageMONTREALTreaty — party states varyMontreal Convention 1999, Art. 1(2)Confidence: highEU air carrier liability for baggage (Regulation (EC) No 2027/97)EUSupranational — 31 countriesRegulation (EC) No 2027/97, Art. 1 (as amended by Regulation (EC) No 889/2002)Confidence: high

The rest of the sequence

Documents are written to be worked through in order: the opening demand, then the answer to whatever they refuse with, then the escalation. Sending the last one first usually costs you the first two.

Baggage — itemised claimThe substantive claim, with the itemised loss. Carriers routinely apply depreciation the convention does not require; this letter says so.baggage.demand8 languages21-day reply windowBaggage — complaint to the regulatorEscalate a baggage claim the carrier has refused or ignored.baggage.escalation-regulator8 languages30-day reply window

You send it

Fill in your own facts and this letter writes itself.

The claim wizard produces this document with your figures, your citations and your deadline already in it. You still print it, sign it and post it yourself — that part is not delegable and we would not take it if it were.

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Duesday is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. This document is an editable template assembled from publicly available law. You are responsible for checking that the facts and the law stated are correct for your situation, and you send it yourself in your own name. Nothing here creates a solicitor–client or attorney–client relationship, and no outcome is promised.