40As regards the direct link between the service supplied to the recipient and the consideration actually received, the Court has already held, as regards the sale of air tickets that passengers have not used and for which they could not obtain repayment, that the consideration for the price paid at the time of the signing of a contract for the supply of a service is formed by the right derived by the customer to benefit from the fulfilment of the obligations arising from the contract, irrespective of whether the customer uses this right. Thus, that supply is made by the supplier of services when it places the customer in a position to benefit from the supply, so that the existence of the abovementioned direct link is not affected by the fact that the customer does not avail himself of that right (see, to that effect, judgment of 23 December 2015, Air France-KLM, and Hop! Brit-Air, C‑250/14 and C‑289/14, EU:C:2015:841, paragraph 28).
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