Protection of Consumers in the Sphere of an Air Carrier’s Responsibility in the Event of a Flight Cancellation Due To a Strike of the Air Carrier’s Employees. Case Comment to the Judgment of the EU Court of Justice of 23 March 2021 Airhelp (C-28/20)

Authors

Cezary Banasiński, Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Prawa i AdministracjiFollow

ORCID

Cezary Banasiński: 0000-0002-5723-1083

Keywords

air passengers’ rights, air carriers’ liability, collective disputes, Regulation 261/2004

Abstract

The case annotation discusses consumer protection in the sphere of an air carrier’s liability for damages arising from a strike of its pilots, which was treated by the carrier as an extraordinary circumstance exempting the carrier from the obligation to pay compensation in the event of a flight cancellation. The Court of Justice interpreted the definition of ‘extraordinary circumstances’, both ‘internal’ and ‘external’ to the activity of the operating carrier, as the premise obliging or releasing the carrier from its liability.

Recommended Citation

Banasiński, C. (2021). Protection of Consumers in the Sphere of an Air Carrier’s Responsibility in the Event of a Flight Cancellation Due To a Strike of the Air Carrier’s Employees. Case Comment to the Judgment of the EU Court of Justice of 23 March 2021 Airhelp (C-28/20). Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 14(23), 153-164. https://doi.org/10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2021.14.23.7

First Page

153

Last Page

164

Page Count

11

Received Date

15.05.2021

Accepted Date

23.06.2021

DOI

10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2021.14.23.7

Publisher

University of Warsaw

Publication Date

2021-09-15