Decision of the EU Court of Justice, 7 September 2017: “…The compensation payable to passengers in the event of cancellation or long delay of a connecting flight must be calculated according to the radial distance between the departure and arrival airports. The fact that the distance actually covered by such a flight is, as a result of the connection, greater than the distance between the departure and arrival airports has no impact on the calculation of compensation…”
Three passengers with a Brussels Airlines ticket Rome-Brussels / Brussels-Hamburg demanded 400 Euro because they flew 1.656 kms (1.173 kms + 483 kms). The court decided that compensation is 250 Euro because Rome-Hamburg is 1.326 kms.
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