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A German consumer-protection association has taken proceedings against ebookers.com before the German courts with a view to requiring that company to refrain from automatically including cancellation insurance with the air fare:ebookers.com Deutschland operates an online portal by which it sells air travel. When a customer selects a specific flight during the booking process, the costs […]

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is introducing legislation that would prevent families from being separated because of airline fees for priority seats like aisles and windows. The bill, which has been dubbed the Families Flying Together Act of 2012, would direct the Department of Transportation to enforce the family seating requirement.Source: The Hill; find article here>>.

A new regulation by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology provides detailed rules on the behaviour of railway passengers and other users of railway premises. It inter alia interdicts to carry along dangerous animals or items (like weapons), to throw things from the train and to enter restricted areas.The full text of Regulation

In their General Conditions of Carriage, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines had incorporated clauses which provided that a passenger who doesn’t use all the flight coupons of his ticket or doesn’t use them in the original order can be required to pay up to the tariff applicable at the time of booking for the actual routing

On October 5, 2011 the Court of Appeal of Barcelona delivered a judgment in a case concerning Ryanair’s policy with regard to printing boarding passes: the claimant had been charged EUR 40 by Ryanair because he had appeared at the airport without a printed bording pass. He sued for reimbursement of this “fine” and requested

At a June 6 hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was questioned about whether the Administration would support legislation to prohibit American airlines from participating in the European Union’s Emissions Trading System. Secretary LaHood, while saying that he wasn’t prepared to take a position on the legislation, did say that he

In his opinion delivered on June 7, 2012, ECJ Advocate General Jääskinen came to the conclusion thatArticle8(2) of, in conjunction with Annex II, Part II, to, Regulation (EC) No1371/2007 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations is to be interpreted as meaning that information on main connecting services must include, in addition to scheduled departure times,

The Court of Session (the Supreme Civil Court in Scotland) has declared that better guidance as to the appropriate level of damages should in future be given to juries in civil damages cases. A five judge bench under the retiring Lord President, Lord Hamilton, made the ruling in allowing two appeals by defenders who claimed

On March 29, 2012, the Swedish Högsta domstolen has referred the following questions to the ECJ for preliminary ruling:Does the carrier’s liability for damage caused by delay under Article 19 of the Montreal Convention also include cases where the passengers’ arrival at the destination is delayed as a result of non-operation of a flight? Does