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Review of legal developments affecting airlines and travel agents.

Author: Kenneth Nankin is an attorney with Nankin & Verma, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Rockville, Md.

Blawg Related Categories: Aviation & Space Law • Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from The NV Flyer

Legacy carriers battle over New York sales employee
American Airlines, Inc. v. Imhof and Delta Airlines, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. June 3, 2009). After 22 years as an American employee, the managing director of the airline’s New York Sales Division resigned to accept a similar…
Passenger’s second visit to Fifth Circuit yields additional baggage damages but no attorneys’ fees
Muoneke v. Compagnie Nationale Air France (5th Cir. Tex. May 12, 2009). In 2004, the passenger traveled from Texas to Nigeria on Air France’s flights. During a change of aircraft in Paris, Air France personnel…
Airline passenger “Bill of Rights” legislation resurrected
On January 12, 2009, Senator Barbara Boxer reintroduced the Airline Passenger Bill of Rights Act with co-sponsor Senator Olympia Snowe. Senator Boxer had introduced a similar bill in 2007, with Senator Snowe as its co-sponsor,…
Appeals court upholds temporary injunction against frequent flyer mileage brokers
Frequent Flyer Depot, Inc., George Pirkle and Robert Pirkle v. American Airlines, Inc. (Tex. Ct. App. Feb. 26, 2009). American’s AAdvantage frequent flyer program prohibits the purchase or sale of the program’s mileage credit or…
Court analyzes definition of “international carriage” under Montreal Convention
Jones v. USA 3000 Airlines (E.D. Mo. Feb. 9, 2009). During a flight from St. Louis to Jamaica, a flight attendant allegedly pushed a service cart into the passenger’s knee, causing damage to the passenger’s…
Court’s narrow view of Montreal Convention preemption results in remand to state court
Narkiewicz-Laine v. Scandinavian Airlines Systems (N.D. Ill. Sept. 12, 2008). In his state court complaint, the passenger claimed that (i) the airline’s delay of a certain international flight in March 2008 caused him to miss…
Court requires airline to disclose passenger contact information, but not employee contact information, in refusal to transport case
Nathaniel v. American Airlines (D. Virgin Islands Nov. 20, 2008). According to the passenger, airline personnel forced her off the aircraft before the domestic flight and refused to transport her because they had determined “she…
Court rules that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction in case against Spanish airline involving passenger in-flight death
Aikpitanhi v. Iberia Airlines of Spain (E.D. Mich. Mar. 31, 2008). The plaintiffs’ son died during an Iberia flight from Spain to Nigeria in 2007 while being deported. The plaintiffs sued Iberia, alleging that Spanish…
Court holds that airline met applicable standard of care in disabled passenger slip and fall case
Elassaad v. Independence Air, Inc. (E.D. Pa. Aug. 20, 2008). After a domestic flight, the passenger “fell down the airplane’s stairway” while disembarking from the aircraft. At the time of the fall, the passenger “had…
Virginia ruling returns to haunt ARC’s collection efforts against agency owner in California
Airlines Reporting Corporation v. Commercial Travel Corporation (S.D. Cal. Aug. 1, 2008). In 2004, ARC was pursuing two separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in which Mario Renda…