Originally Posted by
snic
You know what else I find interesting? That Swiss takes this draconian view of passengers' tardiness, yet is almost completely unwilling to accept responsibility for its own failures of timeliness in the form of EU261 compensation.
What causes you to say that? While generalizations on both sides of the issue are never accurate, many would tell you that once you accept that Switzerland is not an EU Member State and thus, while it has adopted EC 261/2004, it is not bound by CJEU precedent, that LX pays our under the Regulation as it exists under Swiss law exactly as it is required to.
The fact that Switzerland has not subjugated itself to the CJEU is not relevant to whether the OP's parents were on time at JFK.