感謝找到這個才剛出爐沒多久的案例 (2019年7月11日的判決)。剛剛找到的這個案例判決
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2019-07/cp190095en.pdf
By today’s judgment, the Court states, first, that a flight with one or more connections which is the subject of a single reservation constitutes a whole for the purposes of the right of passengers to compensation provided for in the regulation on the rights of air passengers. Accordingly,
connecting flights of which the first flight was performed from an airport located in the territory of a Member State, in this case Prague, fall within the scope of that regulation even if the second of those connecting flights was performed by a non-Community carrier from and to a country which is not an EU Member State.
以下case的細節:
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ceske-air.pdf
這個判例有趣的是,不只是更明確決定了最終目的地是check in時的最終目的,不管中間的轉機是不是在EU裡面。還判決如果前後兩段是不同的航空,前段的的執飛航空(operating carrier)要負起賠償責任,即使delay是發生在轉機段。但是前段航空有權力跟第二段航空追究,但這就不關乘客的事情了。
不過的確,有了EU法庭的判決,任何非EU但是從EU出發的航空,即使轉機點不在EU裡面也不能在逃避責任了。