CELEX: 62014CB0394
Language: en
Date: 2014-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-394/14: Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 November 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Rüsselsheim — Germany) — Sandy Siewert and Others v Condor Flugdienst GmbH (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Rules of Procedure — Article 99 — Air transport — Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 — Long delay to a flight — Passengers’ right to compensation — Conditions exempting an air carrier from its obligation to pay compensation — Notion of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ — Aircraft damaged by a set of mobile boarding stairs in the course of a preceding flight)

19.1.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 16/15
            
         
      Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 14 November 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Rüsselsheim — Germany) — Sandy Siewert and Others v Condor Flugdienst GmbH
      (Case C-394/14) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Rules of Procedure - Article 99 - Air transport - Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 - Long delay to a flight - Passengers’ right to compensation - Conditions exempting an air carrier from its obligation to pay compensation - Notion of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ - Aircraft damaged by a set of mobile boarding stairs in the course of a preceding flight)
      (2015/C 016/23)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Amtsgericht Rüsselsheim
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Sandy Siewert, Emma Siewert, Nele Siewert
      
         Defendant: Condor Flugdienst GmbH
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      Article 5(3) of 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, must be interpreted as meaning that a situation where, as in in the case before the referring court, an airport’s set of mobile boarding stairs collides with an aircraft cannot be categorised as ‘extraordinary circumstances’ exempting the air carrier from its obligation to pay the passengers compensation in the event of a long delay to a flight operated by that aircraft.
      
         (1)  OJ C 372, 20.10.2014.