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Old Apr 8, 2010 | 9:58 am
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henry999
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Originally Posted by abhilife2001
Hmmm.. not so sure..the regulation is applicable as below :

The regulation applies to any passenger:

departing from OR to an airport located in the territory of a Member State to which the Treaty applies;
The protection accorded to passengers departing from OR to an airport located in a Member State should be extended to those leaving an airport located in a third country for one situated in a Member State, when a Community carrier operates the flight and where a community carrier is defined as any carrier licensed to operate within that community - so basically almost every carrier flying to or from or within Europe.

So from the above, I guess IST - MAN is surely covered..
Erm ... no. TK is most assuredly not an EU 'community carrier'.

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Henry
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