Originally Posted by
thomasd21
Are these posts still correct? As per that case Etihad (I think) was operating on behalf of Czech Airlines from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok, under codeshare arrangement. The Etihad flight met with significant delay, but the court ruled Czech Airlines had to pay 261 compensation despite them not operating and the affected flights being operated outside of the EU. Given that, seems to suggest the examples given in the post (Qantas) would actually be covered, and payable by BA?
As I see it, the law is fairly settled on things like QR to DOH, QR out of DOH. It is also settled for codeshares starting in Europe. I woujld expect CEDR to uphold these two examples. If the second flight was Prime and not in the EU and not a European carrier then CEDR would probably fail but MCOL / appellate may succeed - personally I doubt I would bother. I would say the landscape is shifting to end to end ticketing view of the delay. There is a second point that if it's not a codeshare then you have to go after the non European carrier and they may simply not engage with the issue at all and may not have a UK registered address.