Earlier on Thursday, United announced several steps to prevent such episodes from recurring and said that passengers who had arrived on an aircraft shouldn’t have to give up their seats. The airline said it would create a new check-in process that would allow passengers to volunteer to give up their seats for compensation, and increased the limit of that compensation to $10,000 from $1,350. …
A pastor of Asian descent has sued American Airlines, claiming that the legacy carrier bumped him from a flight in 2016 to make room for white passengers to board. Benny Shin, a 75-year-old man who is of Korean ancestry, says that he was about to board a flight from Dallas to Corpus Christi, Texas last year, reports TMZ. While in line to board, Shin, who was a paying customer and already had a …
Imagine you are a juror watching a video of an airline passenger being dragged off an airplane because the airline needed the seat for an employee. You might, as the woman in the video is heard screaming, “Oh my God, this is wrong, look at what you did to him,” as the middle-aged passenger is …
State NAACP President William Barber has filed a discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines. He claims he was removed from a flight in April because he is black. Rev.
More than three months after losing track of an unaccompanied minor and sending him to an airport in an entirely different city than his intended destination , JetBlue is arguing that an international treaty prohibits the mother from bringing a lawsuit against the airline. Back in mid-August, the youngster was supposed to fly from the Dominican Republic to JFK International Airport in New York …
On behalf of a group of more than 40 consumers, a San Francisco law firm is trying to stop a $4 billion merger between Alaska Airlines and Virgin America. The plaintiffs argue the deal would weaken competition in the industry, causing job loss and higher fare prices. Alaska Airlines announced on Aug. 4 that it would acquire Virgin America to create the West Coast’s “premier …
As anyone who has flown Ryanair and other budget airlines knows, the cheapest fares don’t always end up being very cheap. Low-cost carriers, whether Ryanair or Spirit or Frontier, offer the most basic service — efficient passage from point A to point B — for a lower price tag than legacy airlines. If you want to make the experience more palatable, and less like a flying Greyhound bus, you have …
VANCOUVER — WestJet is rejecting allegations made by a former flight attendant that it fails to provide a harassment-free workplace for its female employees, saying it would not put its reputation at stake by inadequately dealing with complaints. The Calgary-based airline’s response to a civil claim, filed this week in British Columbia Supreme Court, argues against granting class-action status…
WestJet is rejecting allegations made by a former flight attendant that it fails to provide a harassment-free workplace for its female employees, saying it would not put its reputation at stake by inadequately dealing with complaints. The Calgary-based airline’s response to a civil claim, filed this week in British Columbia Supreme Court, argues against granting class-action status to a lawsuit…
The grief of families who lost loved ones when a suicidal co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into the French Alps has long turned to anger, a year after the tragedy that claimed 150 lives. Many relatives have banded together with plans to take the airline’s parent company Lufthansa to court in the United States, arguing that the depressive 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz should never have been …