23That finding is consistent with the objective of ensuring a high level of protection for passengers, set out in recital 1 of Regulation No 261/2004, in so far as it ensures that the passengers carried will receive compensation or will be cared for, without needing to take account of arrangements made by the air carrier which decided to perform the flight in question with another air carrier for the purposes of actually performing that flight.
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