{"id":3603,"date":"2022-04-05T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weisenheimer.law\/payments-to-the-credit-card-account-used-for-the-ticket-purchase-are-not-sufficient-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:37:32","slug":"compensation-payments-must-be-deducted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weisenheimer.law\/en\/compensation-payments-must-be-deducted\/","title":{"rendered":"Compensation payments must be deducted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of its rare rulings regarding the Regulation 261\/2004, the Austrian Supreme Court decided in the case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ris.bka.gv.at\/Dokumente\/Justiz\/JJT_20211216_OGH0002_0040OB00177_21I0000_000\/JJT_20211216_OGH0002_0040OB00177_21I0000_000.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4 Ob 177\/21i<\/span><\/a> that compensation payments an airline paid to a passenger in accordance with Article 7 of the regulation must be deducted from further claims for immaterial and material damages asserted by the passenger.<\/p>\n<p>While the regulation sets forth certain passenger rights (Art 7: compensation, Art 8: reimbursement or re-routing, Art 9: care), other claims a passenger may assert (e.g. damages for a hotel booking or a rental car that he could not use) must be based on national law.<\/p>\n<p>In the case at hand, the passenger claimed that the compensation payment aims only to reimburse him for the inconveniences linked to a denied boarding\/cancellation\/long delay and, therefore, must only be deducted from immaterial damages. 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