ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque couple has joined at least eight other passengers in filing a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines over a deadly flight. The Santa Fe New Mexican identifies the couple as Kevin and Andrea Nelson. The suit is in response to the April 2018 flight when a failed engine shattered a plane’s window mid-flight, killing Albuquerque resident Jennifer Riordan. The …
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit seeking the return of baggage fees to passengers whose luggage was delayed or lost on flights with an airline that merged with American Airlines. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that the lawsuit provided sufficient evidence for its claim that the former US Airways promised to deliver bags when passengers landed.
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 …
Courts in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec have approved a plan for distributing $29.6 million obtained from settlements in a class-action lawsuit related to the price-fixing of air cargo shipping services between 2000 and 2006. Eligible individuals must apply online at www.aircargosettlement2.com by May 11. A class-action lawsuit was filed in 2006 and involved more than 20 defendants including Air Canada (TSX:AC) and carriers such as Air France, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Japan Airlines International, Korean Air lines and KLM. It was alleged …
A federal judge on Wednesday approved a court settlement in which Menzies Aviation must pay nearly $8.2 million to resolve the claims of thousands of workers who said they were paid less than $15 an hour after SeaTac’s minimum-wage law went into effect. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle approved the class-action settlement, which had been reached in September . That means checks to …
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 …
A new proposed class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, accuses Fidelity of improperly handling “float income” that plaintiffs feel should be considered a plan asset and thus returned to plan accounts. It was just last month that the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that float income Fidelity retained in the process …
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 …