PRESS RELEASE No 163/22

Luxembourg, 29 September 2022

Judgment of the Court in Case C-597/20 | LOT (Payment of compensation ordered by the administrative authority)

The national authority responsible for the enforcement of the Air Passengers Rights Regulation may, in response to individual complaints, compel a carrier to pay compensation to passengers That is the case provided that the Member State concerned has granted that body a power to that effect

Following a delay of more than three hours of their flight from New York to Budapest, a number of passengers brought the matter before the Hungarian authority responsible for the enforcement of the Air Passengers Right Regulation asking it to order LOT, the air carrier concerned, to pay them the compensation provided for in that regulation.

Indeed, that authority found that the regulation had been infringed and ordered LOT to pay compensation in the amount of EUR 600 to each passenger concerned.

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