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Air transport. The Court of Justice rules on the right to reimbursement in case of a repatriation flight organised by a Member State in the context of consular assistance
A passenger who, following the cancellation of his or her return flight, registers himself or herself for a repatriation flight organised by a Member State in the context of consular assistance, and who is required to pay on that basis to that State a compulsory contribution to costs, does not have a right to reimbursement of those costs at the expense of the operating air carrier according to Regulation 261/2004
Air transport. The Court of Justice rules on the concept of “bodily injury”
A psychological injury caused to a passenger by an accident, which is not linked to bodily injury within the meaning of the Montreal Convention, must be compensated in the same way as such an injury provided that the aggrieved passenger demonstrates the existence of an adverse effect on his or her psychological integrity of such gravity or intensity that it affects his or her general state of health and that it cannot be resolved without medical treatment