Travellers and insolvency: Developments in the EU - part 1 IATA agreement

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced a new voluntary agreement among its members to help repatriate passengers flying to, from or within the EU, who had booked their ticket with an airline that in the meantime filed for bankruptcy and stopped its operations.

CJEU: Non-discrimination on grounds of nationality and free movement of services apply also to air carriers licensed by EU Member States

The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled in its judgment of 18 March 2014 that an EU Member State (MS) may not deny access to its airspace to an air carrier licensed by another MS. Such denial violates Arts 18 and 56 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the EU, which lay down respectively the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality between EU nationals and the freedom of such national to provide services across the EU (Case C-628/11).