CELEX: 62016CN0559
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-559/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hamburg (Germany) lodged on 4 November 2016 — Birgit Bossen and Others v Brussels Airlines

20.2.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 53/20
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hamburg (Germany) lodged on 4 November 2016 — Birgit Bossen and Others v Brussels Airlines
   (Case C-559/16)
   (2017/C 053/26)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Amtsgericht Hamburg
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Birgit Bossen, Anja Bossen, Gudula Gräßmann
   
      Defendant: Brussels Airlines
   
      Question referred
   
   Is the second sentence of Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 (1) to be interpreted as meaning that the concept of ‘distance’ relates only to the direct distance calculated between the point of departure and the last destination on the basis of the ‘great circle’ method, regardless of the distance actually flown?
   
      (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(OJ 2004 L 46, p. 1).