"Knock" on delays prior EC or not

JPears

Would those in the know be kind enough to point those not, in the direction of relevant case law/instances where the claimant's delay was caused by a knock on from the aircraft's previous flight(s) and therefore the irrelevance of any claim of EC by the airline?
Many thanks in advance.

Vauban

JPears wrote: »

Would those in the know be kind enough to point those not, in the direction of relevant case law/instances where the claimant's delay was caused by a knock on from the aircraft's previous flight(s) and therefore the irrelevance of any claim of EC by the airline?
Many thanks in advance.

Actually it's not that straightforward. I see people cite the Finnair judgement, for example, as defitinitive proof that EC's don't apply to knock-on judgements. Actually, I think it is a bit more complicated than that.

Ich_2

I think there needs to be a realisation that every situation is totally different.
OK it could be reasonable to say that a knock on at an airlines base where there could be spares, engineers or alternative aircraft would be acceptable
To take the same view where a defect has occured on an outbound flight to a remote destination (remote from a base that is) that affects the return flight would not, in my view, be reasonable.

There are a lot of relities being ignored just because the court says so which is at times to the detriment of passengers.

JPears

Ich wrote: »

I think there needs to be a realisation that every situation is totally different.
OK it could be reasonable to say that a knock on at an airlines base where there could be spares, engineers or alternative aircraft would be acceptable
To take the same view where a defect has occured on an outbound flight to a remote destination (remote from a base that is) that affects the return flight would not, in my view, be reasonable.

There are a lot of relities being ignored just because the court says so which is at times to the detriment of passengers.

In my case the knock on delay was caused by the previopus flight developing a tech (not an EC) at the airlines home base. As far as I can ascertain, the aircraft had been sat idle at airport for several days before too.