Dom i Danmark: Erstatning iht EU261 ved teknisk feil

[sk931]

Flyselskabet Primera Air har netop tabt en sag om ubetaling af erstatning til passagerer ved store forsinkelser.

"Primera Air taber to sager i Højesteret om erstatninger ved flyforsinkelser. Afgørelserne kan få stor betydning for andre flyselskaber."

http://www.check-in.dk/primera-air-t...jesteretssager

der står bl.a at den kan få betydning i andre EU lande, altså også Sverige...
Får det betydning for de verserende sager mod Norwegian ? spændende tider

Hilsen Ole

[Stoarn]

Det ska vara enklare att forklara det pa engelska:

Technical failure is not deemed to be an extraordinary circumstance within the meaning of EC 261/2004 since ECJ ruling in C-549/07 (Wallentin-Herrmann) in 2008.

Recently such view was confirmed by CJ UE (ECJ) in Van der Lans case, restricting "technical" extraordinary circumstances only to cases of (in brief): 1/ technical failure due to foreign object or force external to aircraft (e.g. failure due to birdstrike or lighting strike), 2/ technical failure appearing in more than one aircraft of the same type being hidden manufacturing vice (e.g. case of Dreamliner batteries).

Interpretation applicable in all EU courts. Officially not binding outside EU (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland) but definitely taken into consideration by courts when ruling. However, SWISS used to object to such claims saying that ECJ/CJ UE judgments are not binding in case of Switzerland (that is actually a nebulous reasoning).