EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BOOSTS AIR PASSENGER RIGHTS IN KEY VOTE
February 1st, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Parliament voted yesterday in a plenary meeting that air passengers facing a flight delay should be compensated if forced to wait for more than three hours, instead of five hours proposed by the European Commission. MEPs voted an exhaustive list of exceptional circumstances in which the airline is not required to pay compensation, such as “bird strikes, political unrest and unforeseen labour disputes”. However, if exceptional circumstances last for days, as with the Icelandic volcano eruption in 2010, airlines should provide accommodation for ...
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