Impact with a foreign object on an airport runway cannot be considered as inherent to the normal exercise of an air carrier's activity and is beyond its effective control, the EU Court of Justice ruled in a judgment delivered on Thursday 4 April (Case C-501/17).
Such an impact can therefore be qualified as an "extraordinary circumstances " within the meaning of the Regulation (261/2004) exempting an air carrier from passenger compensation in the event of denied boarding, cancellation or a...