Travel law Quarterly

The Sky’s the Limit. Denied Boarding Compensation and Limitation Periods

by Jack Harding
Journal: March 2013

For many years the major battleground between passengers and airlines in respect of EC Regulation 261/2004 (the ‘Regulations’) has been whether there is any right to recover compensation for delays as well as for cancellation. Much to the airline industry’s chagrin, the European Court of Justice dealt a near-fatal body blow with its judgment in Sturgeon v Condor (C-402/07) and sounded the death knell when it recently dismissed the challenge to Sturgeon in TUI & Others v CAA (C-629/10).

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