In the decision delivered on Wednesday 4 July in Case C-532/17, the European Court of Justice held that in the event of long flight delay, the air company which must pay the compensation owed to passengers is not the air company which leased the aircraft and its crew, but the air company which decided to perform the flight.
Several passengers reserved a flight from Hamburg (Germany) to Cancún (Mexico) with the air company TUIfly, which hired the aircraft and crew of Thomson Airways. The...