Reimbursement of Commissions Charged by Intermediaries After Flight Cancellation. A Legal Analysis of the Harms Case (C-601/17) and Its Impact on the Objectives of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 - Air and Space Law View Reimbursement of Commissions Charged by Intermediaries After Flight Cancellation. A Legal Analysis of the Harms Case (C-601/17) and Its Impact on the Objectives of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 by - Air and Space Law Reimbursement of Commissions Charged by Intermediaries After Flight Cancellation. A Legal Analysis of the Harms Case (C-601/17) and Its Impact on the Objectives of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 44 1
In the Harms case (C-601/17) of 12 September 2018, the European Court of Justice ruled that in the event of cancellation of a flight, the price of the ticket that should be reimbursed in application of Article 8(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 also includes the commissions collected by intermediaries, unless the commissions were set without the knowledge of the air carrier, which it is for the referring court to ascertain.
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