CELEX: 62016CA0559
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-559/16: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 September 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hamburg — Germany) — Birgit Bossen, Anja Bossen, Gudula Gräßmann v Brussels Airlines SA/NV (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Transport — Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 — Article 7(1) — Common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights — Flight consisting of several legs — Concept of ‘distance’ to be taken into account)

6.11.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 374/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 September 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Hamburg — Germany) — Birgit Bossen, Anja Bossen, Gudula Gräßmann v Brussels Airlines SA/NV
   (Case C-559/16) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Transport - Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 - Article 7(1) - Common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights - Flight consisting of several legs - Concept of ‘distance’ to be taken into account))
   (2017/C 374/11)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Amtsgericht Hamburg
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Birgit Bossen, Anja Bossen, Gudula Gräßmann
   
      Defendant: Brussels Airlines SA/NV
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 7(1) 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 the concept of ‘distance’ relates, in the case of air routes with connecting flights, only to the distance calculated between the first point of departure and the final destination on the basis of the ‘great circle’ method, regardless of the distance actually flown.
   
      (1)  OJ C 53, 20.2.2017.