Sustainable Tourism Law

AIRPORT, CIVIL AVIATION AND TECHNOLOGY LEGAL RELATIONSHIP 791 • The itinerary ... (5.1.a) i). • Means of transport, their characteristics and categories, points of meeting, dates and departure and arrival times, the extention, waiting areas for connection flights and connections transport (5.1.a) ii). • If the trip or vacation is broadly suitable for people with reduced mobility and, at the traveler’s request, precise information on the quality of the trip must be given (5.1. a) viii). • The total price of the trip combined with all taxes included and, in case, all commissions, surcharges and other additional costs (5.1.c). • The special needs of the traveler accepted by the organizer (art. 7 2. a). As it can be seen, the air transport information is part of the Pre-contractual Information that the Tour Operator must provide to the passenger who hires the package. It also obliges the organizers to provide general information about the visas required by the country of destination. Does it include the duty to provide information regarding the airport service? A quick reading could lead to the conclusion that Directive (EU) 2015/2302 of the European Parliament and of the Council of November 25, 2015 does not seem to reach the airport service as a matter included in the information duty it regulates. In fact, it includes in the “travel service” the “passenger transport” (article 3 1) a.), without expressly extending it to the airport service. However, Article 10 Price Modification , would allow inferring that if it includes, partially, aspects of the airport service: “Price increases may only be made as a direct consequence of changes in: a) the price of passenger transport derived from the cost of fuel or other energy sources; b) the level of taxes or fees on travel services included in the contract, required by third parties not directly involved in the execution of the package, including tourist, landing and boarding or arrival fees at ports and airports, ... “(the highlight is ours). Furthermore, among the Information and Subject Matter Obligations of the Combined Travel Contract on article 5 of the rule (described in the previous paragraph), it can also be identified other matters of the airport service to be informed to the consumer. In the itinerary information (5.1.a) i) necessarily the organizing entrepreneur must choose and inform the airports that will be used in the trip. When it refers to dates and times of departure and return, length, places of intermediate stops and transport connections (5.1.a) ii) the information surely