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Air transport. Advocate General Jean Richard de la Tour finds that EU law does not prevent the conferral on a national body of the power to request air carriers the payment of a pecuniary compensation to passengers
Advocate General Jean Richard de la Tour stated in his opinion that article 16, paragraph 1, of Regulation 261/2004 does not preclude national law from conferring on a national body the power to request an air carrier the payment of a compensation to a passenger for the cancellation or long delay of a flight, insofar as the air carrier and the passenger are not precluded from bringing an action before the national judge on matters pertaining to the compensation.
Connecting flight consisting of two legs. The Court of Justice rules on the passenger’s right to compensation from the third-country air carrier
The passenger on a connecting flight comprising two legs and subject to a single booking with a Community carrier, departing from an airport located in the territory of a Member State and arriving at an airport located in a third country via another one in that same country, is entitled to compensation from the third-country air carrier operating the entirety of that flight where he has reached the final destination with a delay of more than three hours caused in the second leg of the flight
Flight consisting of a single booking and divided into more legs. The Court of Justice rules on the concept of “place of performance of the obligation in question”
In respect of a flight consisting of a confirmed single booking for the entire journey and divided into two or more legs on which transport is performed by separate air carriers, where a claim for compensation arises exclusively from a delay of the first leg of the journey caused by a late departure and is brought against the air carrier operating that first leg, the place of arrival for that first leg may not be classified as a “place of performance”