COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Consumers

Flight delay resulting from a passenger's violent conduct does not trigger right to compensation, decrees Advocate General

Brussels, 27/02/2020 (Agence Europe)

Violent behaviour by a passenger that justified a diversion of the flight to the nearest airport in order to disembark that passenger and resulting in a flight delay on arrival falls under the category of "extraordinary circumstances", thus excluding compensation for delay. This was the view of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Pritt Pikamaë, in his Opinion delivered on Thursday 27 February in Case C-74/19.

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