Originally Posted by
Downwind_Left
I think you have your answer there, the Captain said the previous crew ran out of hours. But they will have run out of hours for the reason the airline said "delays from third parties, for ex air traffic control, baggage handling etc"
If the crew had run out of hours because of a maintenance delay that's a different scenario, the airline would likely be liable for EU-261.
The fact the delay was eventually caused by the crew going out of hours, does not automatically make the airline liable. Another example would be bad weather, causing the crew to go out of hours, airline not liable.
However, if the delay was due to crew being out of hours and the airline not having enough fully rested crew to replace the crew in question... that's down to Jet2 and would arguably fall under EU261 rules. How you would find out or get Jet2 to admit to this, I don't know. Maybe an FOI request for the delay code assigned to this flight?
The BHX-CFU-BHX flight was the only rotation of that particular aircraft on 20 June.