18That interpretation is supported by the Court’s case-law, from which it follows that the reimbursement of a part of the ‘price of the ticket’ provided for in Article 10(2)(a) to (c) of Regulation No 261/2004, in the event that the air carrier places a passenger in a class lower than that for which the ticket was purchased, must be determined by reference to solely ‘unavoidable’ components of that price, in the sense that it is necessary to pay them in order to avail of the service proposed by the air carrier in return (judgment of 22 June 2016, Mennens, C‑255/15, EU:C:2016:472, paragraph 36).
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