Prior to Brexit the European Court of Justice decided a number of important cases relating to package travel and EU 261 on denied boarding, long delays and cancellation of flights. These cases are still binding on English Courts. Decisions post-Brexit are only of persuasive value.
Relevant travel law cases are listed below.
2022
Eurowings GmbH v Flightright GmbH (Case C-607/22)
NC v Compania Naţională de Transporturi Aeriene Tarom SA (Case C-229/22)
TAP Portugal v flightright GmbH (C-156/22) and Myflyright GmbH (C-157/22 and C-158/22)
2020
YE and Others v Vueling Airlines SA (Case C-686/20)
CS v Eurowings Gmbh (Case C-613/20)
Q, R & S v United Airlines Inc (Case C-561/20)
YL v Altenrhein Luftfahrt Gmbh (Case C-70/20)
SP v KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. (Case C-367/20)
Airhelp Limited v Laudamotion GmbH (Case C-263/20)
Airhelp Limited v Austrian Airlines AG Case C-264/20
SATA International v Azores Airlines (Case C- 316/20)
AD, BFand CF v Corendon Airlines (Joined cases C-146/20, C-188/20 and C-270/20)(Azurair and Others)
Airhelp Ltd v Scandinavian Airlines System (Case C-28/20)
2019
WZ v Austrian Airlines AG (Case C-826/19)
flightright GmbH v Iberia LAE SA Operadora Unipersonal (Case C 606/19)
Irish Ferries Ltd v National Transport Authority (Case 570/19)
Ryanair DAC v DelayFix, formerly Passenger Rights sp. z o.o. (Case C-519/19)
Ol v Air Nostrum Lineas del Mediterraneo SA (Case C-191/19)
LE v Transport Aereos Portuguesa SA. Case C-74/19
Diskrimineringsombudsmannen v Braathens Regional Aviation AB (Case C-30/19)
2018
CS and Others v České aerolinie a.s. (Case C-502/18)
Rusu v SC Blue Air (Case-354/18)
Libuše Králová v Primera Air Scandinavia A/S (Case C-215/18)
HQ and Others v Aegean Airlines SA (Case C-163/18)
2017
Harms v Vueling Airlines SA (Case C-601/17)
Claudia Wegener v Royal Air Maroc SA (Case C-537/17)
Wirth v Thomson Airways Ltd. (Case C-532/17)
Germanwings GmbH v Wolfgang Pauels (Case C-501/17)
Helga Krüsemann and Others v TUIfly GmbH (Case C-195/17)
2016
Birgit Bossen and Others v Brussels Airlines SA/NV (Case C-559/16)
Bas Jacob Adriaan Krijgsman v Surinaamse Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (Case C-302/16)
Ute Wunderlich v Bulgarian Air Charter Limited (Case C-32/16)
2015
Marcela Pešková and Jiří Peška v Travel Service a.s. (Case C-315/15)
Steef Mennens v Emirates Direktion für Deutschland (Case C-255/15)
2014
Sandy Siewert and Others v Condor Flugdienst GmbH (Case C-394/14)
C. van der Lans v Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (Case C-257/14)
2012
Vueling Airlines SA v Instituto Galego de Consumo de la Xunta de Galicia (Case C-48712)
2011
Jürgen Blödel-Pawlik v HanseMerkur Reiseversicherung AG (Case C-134/11)
Finnair Oyj v Timy Lassooy (Case C-22/11)
Denise McDonagh v Ryanair Ltd (Case C-12/11)
Air France SA v Heinz-Gerke Folkerts and Luz-Tereza Folkerts (Case C-11/11)
2010
Emeka Nelson and Others v Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Joined cases C‑581/10 and C-629/10)
Andrejs Eglītis and Edvards Ratnieks v Latvijas Republikas Ekonomikas ministrija (Case C-294/10
Konsumentombudsmannen v Ving Sverige AB (Case C-122/10)Aurora
Sousa Rodríguez and Others v Air France SA (Case -83/10)
2009
Axel Walz v Clickair SA (Case C-63/09)
2008
Peter Rehder v Air Baltic Corporation (Case C-204/08)
2007
Friederike Wallentin-Hermann v Alitalia - Linee Aeree Italiane SpA (Case C-549/07)
Emirates Airlines – Direktion für Deutschland v Diether Schenkel (Case C-173/07)
2004
2000
Club-Tour, Viagens e Turismo SA v Alberto Carlos Lobo Gonçalves Garrido (Case C-400/00)
Simone Leitner v TUI Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG C-168/00
1997
AFS Intercultural Programs Finland ry (Case C-237/97)
Walter Rechberger and Others v Republik Österreich (Case C-140/97)
1996
Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Österreichische Kreditversicherungs AG ECJ (Case C-364/96)
1994
Dillenkofer v Republic of Germany (Case C-178/94)