CELEX: 62017CN0601
Language: en
Date: 2017-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-601/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hamburg (Germany) lodged on 18 October 2017 — Dirk Harms and Others v Vueling Airlines SA

22.1.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/21
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hamburg (Germany) lodged on 18 October 2017 — Dirk Harms and Others v Vueling Airlines SA
   (Case C-601/17)
   (2018/C 022/31)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Amtsgericht Hamburg
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Dirk Harms, Ann-Kathrin Harms, Nick-Julius Harms, Tom-Lukas Harms, Lilly-Karlotta Harms, Emma-Matilda Harms, the latter four represented by their parents Dirk Harms und Ann-Kathrin Harms
   
      Defendant: Vueling Airlines SA
   
      Question referred
   
   Must the concept of ‘reimbursement … by the means provided for in Article 7(3), of the full cost of the ticket at the price at which it was bought’ in accordance with Article 8(1)(a) of Regulation No 261/2004 (1) be interpreted as referring to the amount paid by the passenger for the ticket in question, or is it the amount which the defendant air carrier has actually received, where an intermediary undertaking is involved in the booking process and collects the difference between what the passenger pays and what the air carrier receives without disclosing this?
   
      (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.