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Last week advocate general Bot released an opinion in respect of a referral made by the national Czech Republic courts for a preliminary ruling on whether a bird strike should be considered an extraordinary circumstance (C-315/15 - Marcela PeÅ¡ková, JiÅà PeÅ¡ka -v- Travel Service as). Whilst advisory in nature, the opinion has concluded that bird strikes do not fall within the extraordinary circumstances defence currently available to carriers since, in his opinion, they are inherent in the normal exercise of the activity of a carrier.