46Regulation No 261/2004 contains nothing that would permit the inference that it recognises a separate category of ‘particularly extraordinary’ events, such as the COVID‑19 pandemic, beyond the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ referred to in Article 5(3) of that regulation, which would lead to the operating air carrier being exempted from all of its obligations, including those under Article 8 of that regulation (see, by analogy, judgment of 31 January 2013, McDonagh, C‑12/11, EU:C:2013:43, paragraph 30).
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