05/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - CDU MEP Werner Langen has hailed the European Parliament's recent green light to the draft directive on compensating air passengers for delays and overbookings, hoping that the EU's transport ministers will reach swift agreement on the matter (see Europe of 23 December, p.11, on the vote in the European Parliament). The MEP points out that according to the European Commission, around 250,000 air passengers are affected by delays and overbookings in Europe every...