Covid-19 vs Air Rights?

The EU is the only area in the world where citizens are protected by a full set of passengers' rights – whereby they travel by air, rail, bus or coach. The focus of this article is to provide a brief overview of the "Air rights" that passengers have and to briefly clarify certain guidelines that the EU has established due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

• "Air Rights" - have been established within the European Union, after the Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 (herein the "Regulation") has been enforced on February 2004, setting common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay flights.
• "Operating air carrier" = refers to the air company that decided to perform the flight, and not the company which leased out the aircraft and its crew. Flight is an air transport, performed by the air carrier which fixes itinerary and a journey involving an outward and a return flight cannot be regarded as a single