Originally Posted by
joshwex90
True, however, the UK Court of Appeals did recently rule that non-EU carriers operating outside the EU are liable on connecting journeys that are delayed (i.e. fly LHR-JFK-ATL where AA causes you to be delayed by more than 3 hours in arriving at ATL).
Not exactly the same, but the courts are expanding the rules somewhat.
If AA operated the entire journey then yes, and there have been several such rulings I think, but this at least falls under "departing from an EU member state".