19The first condition emphasises the concept of a ‘flight’, which is its key component. The Court has previously held that that concept must be understood as ‘an air transport operation, being as it were a “unit” of such transport, performed by an air carrier which fixes its itinerary’ (judgments of 10 July 2008, Emirates Airlines, C‑173/07, EU:C:2008:400, paragraph 40; of 13 October 2011, Sousa Rodríguez and Others, C‑83/10, EU:C:2011:652, paragraph 27; and of 22 June 2016, Mennens, C‑255/15, EU:C:2016:472, paragraph 20).
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