January, 2025
aviation
Air transport. The Court of Justice rules on the lack of need for a temporal link between the cancelled flight and the re-routing one desired by the passenger
Article 8(1)(c) of Regulation No 261/2004 does not require, for the purposes of its application, the existence of a temporal link between the cancelled flight and the re-routing one desired by a passenger, since such re-routing to the final destination may be requested under comparable transport conditions at a later date, subject to availability of seats