Once is not customary, the twenty-seven agreed on Thursday, June 5, on a subject that speaks to millions of Europeans: compensation in the event of plane delay or cancellation of their flight. The subject is at high political risk, as it is general public. He also has heavy economic implications for airlines. It is so flammable that member countries will have taken over ten years to get along. And again, it was very small that the meeting of the Ministers of Transport, which was held Thursday in Luxembourg, turned to the fiasco.
Today, as soon as a flight is at least three hours late, passengers can be compensated up to 600 euros. In practice, carriers rarely inform their customers of their rights, based on a community regulation, which dates from 2004 and that the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) have specified over the years. A legal maquis on which the recovery agencies prospered.
Member States have noted these thresholds. In the future, it will take more than four hours behind to receive financial compensation of 300 euros on an intra-European journey. If the trip exceeds 3,500 kilometers, the allowances will rise to 500 euros and will be due beyond six hours late. Flights to overseas territories are treated as intra-European flights but their delay gives rise to the compensation provided for long letters.
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Source: Lemonde