ECJ Cases

Prior to Brexit the European Court of Justice decided a number of important cases relating to package travel and EU 261 on denied boarding, long delays and cancellation of flights. These cases are still binding on English Courts. Decisions post-Brexit are only of persuasive value.

Relevant travel law cases are listed below.

2022

Eurowings GmbH v Flightright GmbH (Case C-607/22)

NC v Compania Naţională de Transporturi Aeriene Tarom SA (Case C-229/22)

TAP Portugal v flightright GmbH (C-156/22) and Myflyright GmbH (C-157/22 and C-158/22)

2020

YE and Others v Vueling Airlines SA (Case C-686/20)

CS v Eurowings Gmbh (Case C-613/20)

Q, R & S v United Airlines Inc (Case C-561/20)

YL v Altenrhein Luftfahrt Gmbh (Case C-70/20)

SP v KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. (Case C-367/20)

Airhelp Limited v Laudamotion GmbH (Case C-263/20)

Airhelp Limited v Austrian Airlines AG Case C-264/20

SATA International v Azores Airlines (Case C- 316/20)

AD, BFand CF v Corendon Airlines (Joined cases C-146/20, C-188/20 and C-270/20)(Azurair and Others)

Airhelp Ltd v Scandinavian Airlines System (Case C-28/20)

2019

Flightright (Case C-939/19)

WZ v Austrian Airlines AG (Case C-826/19)

flightright GmbH v Iberia LAE SA Operadora Unipersonal (Case C 606/19)

X v Kuoni (Case 578/19)

Irish Ferries Ltd v National Transport Authority (Case 570/19)

NM v ON (Case C-530/19)

Ryanair DAC v DelayFix, formerly Passenger Rights sp. z o.o. (Case C-519/19)

Ol v Air Nostrum Lineas del Mediterraneo SA (Case C-191/19)

LE v Transport Aereos Portuguesa SA. Case C-74/19

Diskrimineringsombudsmannen v Braathens Regional Aviation AB (Case C-30/19)

2018

GN v ZU (Case C-532/18)

CS and Others v České aerolinie a.s. (Case C-502/18)

Rusu v SC Blue Air (Case-354/18)

Libuše Králová v Primera Air Scandinavia A/S (Case C-215/18)

HQ and Others v Aegean Airlines SA (Case C-163/18)

2017

Harms v Vueling Airlines SA (Case C-601/17)

Claudia Wegener v Royal Air Maroc SA (Case C-537/17)

Wirth v Thomson Airways Ltd. (Case C-532/17)

Germanwings GmbH v Wolfgang Pauels (Case C-501/17)

Helga Krüsemann and Others v TUIfly GmbH (Case C-195/17)

2016

Birgit Bossen and Others v Brussels Airlines SA/NV (Case C-559/16)

flightright Gmbh v Air Nostrum, Lineas Aereas del Mediterraneo SA. Joined cases C-274/16, C-447/16 and C-448/16

Bas Jacob Adriaan Krijgsman v Surinaamse Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (Case C-302/16)

Air Berlin plc & Co. Luftverkehrs KG v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V (Case C-290/16)

Ute Wunderlich v Bulgarian Air Charter Limited (Case C-32/16)

2015

Marcela Pešková and Jiří Peška v Travel Service a.s. (Case C-315/15)

Steef Mennens v Emirates Direktion für Deutschland (Case C-255/15)

2014

Sandy Siewert and Others v Condor Flugdienst GmbH (Case C-394/14)

C. van der Lans v Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (Case C-257/14)

2012

Vueling Airlines SA v Instituto Galego de Consumo de la Xunta de Galicia (Case C-48712)

2011

Germán Rodríguez Cachafeiro and María de los Reyes Martínez-Reboredo Varela-Villamor v Iberia, Líneas Aéreas de España SA (Case C-321/11)

Jürgen Blödel-Pawlik v HanseMerkur Reiseversicherung AG (Case C-134/11)

ebookers.com Deutschland GmbH v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände— Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband eV (Case C-112/11)

Finnair Oyj v Timy Lassooy (Case C-22/11)

Denise McDonagh v Ryanair Ltd (Case C-12/11)

Air France SA v Heinz-Gerke Folkerts and Luz-Tereza Folkerts (Case C-11/11)

2010

Emeka Nelson and Others v Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Joined cases C‑581/10 and C-629/10)

Andrejs Eglītis and Edvards Ratnieks v Latvijas Republikas Ekonomikas ministrija (Case C-294/10

Konsumentombudsmannen v Ving Sverige AB (Case C-122/10)Aurora 

Sousa Rodríguez and Others v Air France SA (Case -83/10)

2009

Peter Pammer v Reederei Karl Schlüter GmbH & Co. KG (C-585/08) and Hotel Alpenhof GesmbH v Oliver Heller (C-144/09).

Axel Walz v Clickair SA (Case C-63/09)

2008

Peter Rehder v Air Baltic Corporation (Case C-204/08)

2007

Friederike Wallentin-Hermann v Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane SpA (Case C-549/07)

Christopher Sturgeon, Gabriel Sturgeon and Alana Sturgeon v Condor Flugdienst GmbH (C-402/07) and Stefan Böck and Cornelia Lepuschitz v Air France SA (C-432/07)

Emirates Airlines – Direktion für Deutschland v Diether Schenkel (Case C-173/07)

2004

The Queen, on the application of International Air Transport Association and European Low Fares Airline Association v Department for Transport (Case C-344/04)

2000

Club-Tour, Viagens e Turismo SA v Alberto Carlos Lobo Gonçalves Garrido (Case C-400/00)

Simone Leitner v TUI Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG C-168/00

 1997

AFS Intercultural Programs Finland ry (Case C-237/97)

Walter Rechberger and Others v Republik Österreich (Case C-140/97)

1996

Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Österreichische Kreditversicherungs AG ECJ (Case C-364/96)

1994

Dillenkofer v Republic of Germany (Case C-178/94)