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The Definition of Connecting Flight and Extraterritorial Application of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004: A Case Comment on Claudia Wegener v. Royal Air Maroc SA [2018] Case C-537/17  

Sur, Ji-Min (Department of International Trade in Pusan National University)
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The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy / v.35, no.1, 2020 , pp. 103-125 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper reviews the EU Case, Claudia Wegener v. Royal Air Maroc SA [2018] ECLI:EU:C:2018:361, Case C-537/17. It analyzes some issues as to Wegener case by examining EU Regulations and practical point of views. Article 3(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights, entitled scope, provides: "this Regulation shall apply: (a) to passengers departing from an airport located in the territory of a Member State to which the Treaty applies; (b) to passengers departing from an airport located in a third country to an airport situated in the territory of a Member State to which the Treaty applies, unless they received benefits or compensation and were given assistance in that third country, if the operating air carrier of the flight concerned is a Community carrier." ECJ held that must be interpreted as meaning that Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 applies to a passenger transport effected under a single booking and comprising, between its departure from an airport situated in the territory of a Member State and its arrival at an airport situated in the territory of a third State, a scheduled stopover outside the European Union with a change of aircraft. According to the Court, it is apparent from the regulation and case-law that when, as in the present case, two (or more) flights are booked as a single unit, those flights constitute a whole for the purposes of the right to compensation for passengers. Those flights must therefore be considered as one and the same connecting flight.
Keywords
Carriage of Passengers by Air; Regulation (EC) No 261/2004; Court of Justice of the European Union; Extraterritorial Application; Connecting Flight; Delay of Flight; Compensation for Passengers;
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