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PRESS RELEASE No 95/23

Luxembourg, 8 June 2023

Judgment of the Court in Case C-49/22 | Austrian Airlines (Repatriation flight)

COVID-19 pandemic: a repatriation flight organised in the context of consular assistance does not constitute a re-routed flight that the operating air carrier must offer to passengers whose flight has been cancelled

A passenger who registers himself or herself on a repatriation flight and pays to the State that organised it an obligatory contribution to costs is not entitled, on the basis of EU law, to reimbursement of those costs at the expense of the air carrier that was to operate the previously planned flight.

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