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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
Connecting flights and reservation through a travel agency. The Court of Justice rules on the compensation for air passengers in the event of a long delay to a flight
The concept of a “connecting flight” covers a transport operation made up of a number of flights, operated by separate air carriers which do not have a specific legal relationship, where those flights have been combined by a travel agency which has charged an overall price and issued a single ticket for that operation