{"id":3473,"date":"2022-03-22T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weisenheimer.law\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:06:23","slug":"payments-to-the-credit-card-account-are-not-sufficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weisenheimer.law\/en\/payments-to-the-credit-card-account-are-not-sufficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Payments to the credit card account are not sufficient"},"content":{"rendered":"
The regional court Korneuburg decided in the cases 22 R 171\/21h<\/span><\/a>, 22 R 196\/21k<\/span><\/a> and 22 R 210\/21v<\/span><\/a> that while Article 7 (3) of Regulation 261\/2004 does not generally prevent payments to the credit card account used by a passenger, it must be assessed in accordance with applicable national law whether such payments relieve an airline from its obligation to pay.<\/p>\n If Austrian law applies, payments to the credit card account a passenger used to pay for his\/her tickets are not sufficient for an airline to fulfill its obligations (i.e., mainly in connection with a ticket refund or a compensation payment). The regional court argued that only payments made to an account the passenger disclosed vis a vis the airline for refund purposes<\/strong> are regarded sufficient to relieve the airline from its obligation to pay.<\/p>\n These rulings especially have an impact on cases in which it is uncertain whether a passenger already received a payment or when exactly he\/she received the payment. To comply with these rulings, it would be advisable to either have passengers specify the account they demand a payment to be made to during the refund application process or to contact the specific passenger before issuing a payment.<\/p>\n