COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Consumers

CJEU says airline must compensate passengers after flight cancelled due to strike organised by staff trade union

Brussels, 23/03/2021 (Agence Europe)

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in a judgment handed down on Tuesday, 23 March, that a strike organised by a trade union of the staff of an air carrier and intended, in particular, to secure pay increases does not fall within the concept of an ‘extraordinary circumstance’ able to release the airline from its obligation to pay its passengers compensation for the cancellation or long delay of the flights concerned (Case C-28/20).

The company SAS refused to...