28With regard to the amounts set by Article 7(1) of Regulation No 261/2004, they are intended to compensate, in a standardised and immediate manner, for the damage that is constituted by the inconvenience that, inter alia, as is the case in the main proceedings, denied boarding in the carriage of passengers by air causes, without the passengers having to suffer the inconvenience inherent in the bringing of actions for damages before the courts having jurisdiction (see, by analogy, judgment of 10 January 2006, IATA and ELFAA, C‑344/04, EU:C:2006:10, paragraph 45).
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