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Articoli Correlati: Flight delay compensation

On 4 July 2018, in case C 532/17, the Court of Justice of the European Union stated that in case of long delay of a flight, the air company which must pay the compensation owed to passengers is not the air company which leased the aircraft and its crew, but the air company which decided to perform the flight. In particular, an air company which leases an aircraft, including its crew, under a wet lease to another air company, but does not bear the operational responsibility for the flight, cannot be regarded as the operating air carrier for the purposes of that regulation. It is irrelevant, in that regard, that the booking confirmation of the flight issued to passengers states that the flight is operated by the former air company.