In a ruling handed down on Wednesday 4 March (case T-656/24), the General Court of the European Union ruled that an airline cannot rely on an extraordinary circumstance affecting a previous flight if the delay to the subsequent flight is due to an autonomous decision taken by the airline.
In Germany, two airline passengers are claiming compensation from European Air Charter for a delay of more than three hours to their flight from Düsseldorf to Varna. The company argued that it had...