The Vienna Higher Regional Court had already declared 19 of the contested clauses to be illegal, but four others to be permissible. The Supreme Court has now declared the four clauses to be illegal as well. The ruling is legally binding. The Association for Consumer Information (VKI) had brought proceedings against Laudamotion GmbH on behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs over various clauses in its general terms and conditions of carriage. One of the clauses declared illegal allowed the flight times stated on the booking confirmation to change up until the actual travel date. The VKI saw this as an illegal right of Laudamotion to change services. The company justified itself by saying that flight times had to be changed again and again and that this depended on a variety of external circumstances. The Supreme Court has now confirmed the VKI's legal opinion. The clause contains an illegal unilateral right of the airline to change services, as it does not restrict circumstances that are outside of Laudamotion's sphere of influence. Two other clauses were rejected by the Supreme Court because the court considered them to be likely to deter consumers from pursuing legitimate claims. These concerned liability limitations for baggage transport and damages in the event of bodily injury. "The clauses gave customers an incorrect impression of their legal position and could therefore deter them from enforcing their rights. These clauses contradicted the requirement for transparency," said Beate Gelbmann, head of the litigation department at the VKI. In addition, a clause regulated which provisions should take precedence in the event of contradictions between Laudamotion's conditions of carriage and certain regulations of the owner company Ryanair. The Supreme Court judged this clause to be non-transparent because it required consumers to assess whether there were contradictions between the individual