The Lithuanian government is against the EU proposals to increase the length of flight delays for which passengers should receive compensation and to reduce the amount of compensation.
This position was expressed by Transport Minister Eugenijus Sabutis at the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council meeting in Luxembourg, the ministry said on Friday, adding that such proposals would weaken passengers’ rights.
“We are concerned that they want to extend the time limit for flight delays when passengers can already receive the compensation they are entitled to and that they also want to reduce the amount of compensation,” the minister said in a statement.
According to the ministry, the TTE Council is proposing paying passengers 300 euros in compensation if the flight is delayed for at least four hours and has a distance of up to 3,500 kilometres. For longer delays of 6 hours or more, the compensation would be 500 euros.
In addition, it is proposed that a passenger would not have to make a separate compensation request for cancellation or refund, but that air carriers would have to do this automatically.
