Originally Posted by
johan rebel
A Belgian court has today declared these fare rules null and void. The court ruled that AF-KL may not cancel a ticket if a pax doesn't fly one or more of the segments. Should the airline not comply, it will have to pay damages of € 2,500.-- per day.
Source (in Dutch)
A similar court case is pending in the Netherlands.
Johan
There have been similar decisions in Germany and Italy. As always with those cases, however, the devil is in the detail. Just saying that a clause that results in the cancellation of the ticket if a sector is missed or is taken out of order is void as unfair does not necessarily mean that the passenger has the right to skip a segment at no cost and continue. The article you reference is very vague and does not contain enough information to give a clear sense of what was actually decided in the case.