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Airline must compensate passengers for cancellations due to strike action
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High Court refuses to grant judicial review of a determination of the respondent directing the applicant to pay compensation to ten airline passengers in respect of a flight cancellations due to strike action, on the grounds that: (a) it was unstateable that the strike could be considered 'extraordinary circumstances' within the meaning of aviation law; and (b) there was no manifest error in the decision of the respondent in relation to the examination of the existence or otherwise of extraordinary circumstances.
Judicial review - aviation law - judicial review of a determination of the respondent directing the applicant to pay compensation to 10 airline passengers in respect of a flight cancellations due to strike action - s. 45A of the Aviation Regulation Act, 2001 (as amended) - article 5(1)(c) and article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council - whether the applicant was entitled to a derogation of the obligation to pay compensation, or payment of a fixed sum - whether the strike, due to the involvement of the union, could be categorised as extraordinary circumstances - reliefs refused.
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