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.
"Not exactly the same" is a vast understatement. The facts and the legal discussion are entirely different and has absolutely nothing to do with this issue.
All the case does is provide that on a departure from the EU, a non-EU carrier remains liable for delay compensation as determined at the final ticketed destination no matter that the delay on the EU departure segment was not sufficient to trigger compensation. Thus, on AA flying LHR-JFK-LAX, a one hour delayed arrival into JFK causing a misconnect resulting in a 5-hour delay into LAX is measured at LAX not JFK. At LAX, the 5-hour delay results in compensation of EUR 600. At JFK, the compensation would be EUR 0.
More fundamentally, the EU and its courts simply lack jurisdiction and authority over the facts and the law in the situation.