{"id":10761,"date":"2021-07-21T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laffineur.com\/passenger-protection\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:20:58","slug":"passenger-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laffineur.com\/en\/passenger-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 31 May 2018, in case 537\/17 Claudia Wegener v. Royal Air Maroc, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled\u00a0 that EU Regulation 261\/2004 <strong>on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights, <\/strong>applies to passenger transport effected under a single booking and comprising, between its departure from an airport situated in a Member State (Berlin) and its arrival at an airport situated in a third country (Agadir), a scheduled stopover outside the EU (Casablanca) with a change of aircraft. In more general terms, the ECJ ruled that from the aforementioned regulation and case law it is clear that if two or more flights are booked as a single unit, those flights should be viewed as a whole for the purposes of the right to compensation for passengers. 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