Traduction de «Luogo d'imbarco » (Italien → Anglais) :

a journey undertaken by a vehicle of which the point of departure and the point of arrival are in the same Member State, while the picking up or setting down of passengers is in another Member State or in a third country.

The services the provision of which corresponds to the performance of the obligations arising from a contract to transport passengers by air are the checking-in and boarding of passengers, the on-board reception of those passengers at the place of take-off agreed in the transport contract in question, the departure of the aircraft at the scheduled time, the transport of the passengers and their luggage from the place of departure to the place of arrival, the in-flight care of the passengers and, finally, the disembarkation of the passengers in safe conditions at the place of landing and at the time scheduled in that contract.

Firstly, the draft Regulation prohibits air carriers refusing to allow persons to make a reservation, or embark, on grounds of their handicap or their age.

When an air carrier reasonably expects to deny boarding on a flight, it first calls for volunteers to surrender their reservations in exchange for certain benefits.

Second, if after all airlines or tour operators do deny passengers boarding, they would have to pay compensation at a dissuasive level:

Multimodal transport services provided by the members of the FEFC consists in the following five elements: a) inland transport to the port of embarkation b) cargo handling in that port c) sea transport d) cargo handling in the port of destination e) inland transport from the port of destination to the place of final destination. The group exemption for liner conferences, contained in Regulation 4056/86 permits price fixing for sea transport services.