CELEX: 62015CN0257
Language: en
Date: 2015-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-257/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hannover (Germany) lodged on 1 June 2015 — Michael Ihden, Gisela Brinkmann v TUIfly GmbH

24.8.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 279/19
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hannover (Germany) lodged on 1 June 2015 — Michael Ihden, Gisela Brinkmann v TUIfly GmbH
   (Case C-257/15)
   (2015/C 279/23)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Amtsgericht Hannover
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Michael Ihden, Gisela Brinkmann
   
      Defendant: TUIfly GmbH
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Must Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 (1) be interpreted as meaning that extraordinary circumstances which arise during a preceding flight continue to constitute extraordinary circumstances in relation to the flight at issue in the case where the airline operator has the possibility to avoid delay in the remaining flights of the flight sequence by not carrying out certain flights within that flight sequence?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the Court’s answer to Question 1 is in the affirmative: Must the extraordinary circumstances have arisen on the same day, the previous day or, more generally, only within the scheduled flight sequence?
            
         
      (1)  Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights, and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 295/91 (Text with EEA relevance) — Commission Statement (OJ 2004 L 46, p. 1).