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Contract of transport by air. The Court of Justice rules on the enforceability of the jurisdiction clause by the airline
A jurisdiction clause incorporated in the contract of carriage between a passenger and an airline cannot be enforced by the latter against a collection agency to which the passenger has assigned the claim in order to contest the jurisdiction of a court to hear an action for compensation brought against that airline, unless the agency had succeeded to an original contracting party’s rights and obligations