52Secondly, the balancing of the interests of air passengers and air carriers which led to the adoption of Regulation 261/2004 (judgments of 19 November 2009, Sturgeon and Others, C‑402/07 and C‑432/07, EU:C:2009:716, paragraph 67, and of 23 October 2012, Nelson and Others, C‑581/10 and C‑629/10, EU:C:2012:657, paragraph 39) implies that account must be taken of the way in which aircraft are operated by air carriers and, in particular, of the fact, referred to by the interested parties who took part in these proceedings, that, at least for certain categories of flights, the same aircraft may carry out several successive flights on the same day, which means that any extraordinary circumstances affecting an aircraft on a previous flight affects the subsequent flight or flights of that aircraft.
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