Brussels, 24 June 2025 – Today’s vote on enforcing passenger rights and multimodal passenger rights has seen the Transport Committee (TRAN) finally take action against online freeriding by spelling out the duties and liabilities of every business that sells travel, not least the fast-growing online intermediaries keen to market trips while avoiding responsibility when things go wrong.

Unfortunately, this is overshadowed by the Committee using this vote to add air travel specific amendments by the backdoor that remove choice from passengers and their ability to decide what services they want to pay for and, most importantly, what service they don’t.

MEPs will revisit passenger rights again in the Autumn in detail when the revision of the EU261 Regulation returns to the European Parliament following the agreement reached between member states earlier this month.

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