Defrenne v Sabena (No 2) Defrenne v Sabena (No 2) Defrenne v Sabena (No 2) (1976) Case 43/75 is a foundational European Union law case, concerning direct effect and the European Social Charter in the European Union. The case was championed by the Belgian lawyer Eliane Vogel-Polsky, who was responsible for much of the heavy involvement in sex discrimination law of the time by the European Court of Justice. A woman named Gabrielle Defrenne worked as a flight attendant for the Belgian national airline Sabena. Under Belgian law, female flight attendants were obliged to retire at the age of 60, unlike their male counterparts. Defrenne
Gadair European Airlines Gadair European Airlines Gadair European Airlines was an airline based in Madrid, Spain. It was operating aircraft on ACMI leases for services to five continents. A number of changes of plan have been made, including a switch to Bahrain as the main hub. The airline originally planned to launch operations on 10 April 2006 using Boeing 767-200ER aircraft on ACMI leases, but delays in obtaining the necessary licences mean that the launch date was delayed to June 2007. The airline was owned by Grupo AISA and Santiago Sanchez Marin. In 2007 new shareholders entered in a capital increase, that resulted