EU Tells Airlines to Pay Passengers for Fuel-Linked Cancellations
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The EU's transport commissioner rejects claims of a shortage of jet fuel in Europe.
Airlines that cancel flights this summer due to expensive or scarce aviation fuel must simply compensate travelers in the European Union. That is reported by The Guardian. According to European Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas, high fuel prices do not fall under ‘extraordinary circumstances’, meaning airlines cannot invoke an exception.
The European Commission has recalled on Thursday that fuel prices are not an exceptional circumstance. Cancelling a flight in this context therefore involves compensatory measuresThe companies that have cancelled flights due to energy prices will have to reimburse passengers. This is what the European Commissioner for Transport and Tourism said on Thursday at the Financial Times Apóstolos Tzitzikóstas, ahead of the publication of an EU document …
Companiile aeriene care annulează zboruri în această din cauza lipsei de combustible vor fi obligate să despăgubească pasagerii, deoarece prețurile ridicate la kerosen și possible penurii nu reprezintă “extraordinary circumstanțe”, declared European Commissioner for Transportation, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, quoted by Financial Times and The Guardian. “Prețul combustible pentru avioane este motivul pentru care apar...
These circumstances do not protect airlines from passenger claims.
In the face of the rising prices of kerosene and the cancellation of 2 million seats worldwide, Brussels recalls that European airlines remain obliged to compensate passengers, as the increase in fuel does not constitute an "extraordinary circumstance" under the law...
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