National carrier Air India has won a significant legal battle in a case of a passenger dispute in the UK.<\/p>\n
Notably, a bench of the English Court of Appeal, has passed an order in favour of the airline.<\/p>\n
Initially, a District Judge had passed a judgment against the airline in a dispute centered on the applicability of EU compensation regulations for a single booking, where only one leg of the booking \u2013 the only one within EU or UK jurisdiction \u2013 was delayed.<\/p>\n
In this case, the third leg of the passenger’s flight departed from Heathrow Airport late, resulting in delays in her final arrival at her destination.<\/p>\n
The Court of Appeal after a full hearing held in favour of Air India that previous European Court of Justice case law reaffirmed the ‘single-unit’ principle for a multiple-leg journey made under the same booking.<\/p>\n
Air India successfully argued that there was no reason why this principle should not be applied to this case, in circumstances where the Claimant’s journey originated from a non-UK or non-EU destination.<\/p>\n
“What is significant about this decision is that this is one of the first cases where the Court of Appeal has been asked to determine EU law post-Brexit,” said Daniel Powell of Zaiwalla & Co, Air India’s solicitors.<\/p>\n
“The intention of ECJ judges when making their decisions was discussed at the hearing, and the Court of Appeal chose to not interpret these principles differently in the post-Brexit era.”<\/p>\n
“Had the Claimant succeeded in their appeal, airlines could have expected myriad further claims against them, with a potentially substantial economic impact being felt across an industry already reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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