Originally Posted by
NickB
If they wrongly refused to let you board, then this would constitute an involuntary denied boarding under regulation 261/2004, which would entitle you to €600 in compensation.
If your country of destination does indeed require a number of blank pages on the passport and you did not have enough blank pages, then they could legitimately deny you boarding.
The fact that they allowed you to travel the next day would tend, on the face of it, to suggest that the former rather than the latter is true.
Invol compensation is only required if the invol was due purely to overbooking. For flights departing the US. EC 261/2004 definition: "(j) ‘denied boarding’ means a refusal to carry passengers on a flight, although they have presented themselves for boarding under the conditions laid down in Article 3(2), except where there are reasonable grounds to deny them boarding, such as reasons of health, safety or security, or inadequate travel documentation;"
Inadequate travel docs is reasonable grounds to deny boarding, and even if travel docs were good, if agent had good reason to believe otherwise it's probably still a legitimate denial of boarding