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Old Jul 13, 2020 | 5:02 pm
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Crazydre
 
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Originally Posted by athome
If you read the EU text further down, the box of Pandora gets opened. Therefore no chance.
Originally Posted by athome
The above considerations are not and cannot be exhaustive in that other specific
circumstances in relation to Covid-19 may also fall under the ambit of Article 5(3)."
You make it sound black-on-white (quote 1), when the wording (quote 2) makes it clear it's anything but. It says "may" precisely because the circumstances must fall within Article 5(3) of EC261, i.e. the cancellation/delay must be beyond the airline's control. So again my question is: if a route is cancelled on day X, but operates on day X-2 and X+1, that seems like a voluntary reduction of services (profitability issues?). So how exactly is that outside the airline's control?
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