CELEX: 62019CA0191
Language: en
Date: 2020-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-191/19: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 30 April 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main — Germany) — OI v Air Nostrum Líneas Aéreas del Mediterráneo SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Air transport — Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 — Compensation for air passengers in the event of denied boarding — Denied boarding — Cancellation — Connecting flights — Change of the reservation in respect of one of the flights comprising the journey by air against the passenger’s will — Arrival of the passenger without delay at his or her final destination)

20.7.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 240/21
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 30 April 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Frankfurt am Main — Germany) — OI v Air Nostrum Líneas Aéreas del Mediterráneo SA
      (Case C-191/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Air transport - Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 - Compensation for air passengers in the event of denied boarding - Denied boarding - Cancellation - Connecting flights - Change of the reservation in respect of one of the flights comprising the journey by air against the passenger’s will - Arrival of the passenger without delay at his or her final destination)
      (2020/C 240/27)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landgericht Frankfurt am Main
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: OI
      
         Defendant: Air Nostrum Líneas Aéreas del Mediterráneo SA
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      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, and in particular Article 7 thereof, must be interpreted as meaning that compensation is not payable to a passenger who had a single reservation for connecting flights in the case where that reservation was amended against the passenger’s will, with the result that, first, the passenger did not board the first of his or her reserved flights even though that flight went ahead and, second, the passenger was given a seat on a later flight which allowed him or her to board the second of his or her reserved flights and thus to reach his or her final destination at the arrival time originally scheduled.
      
         (1)  OJ C 206, 17.6.2019.