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The U.S. Government Accountability Office – “the investigative arm of Congress” – is investigating how the new tarmac-delay rule is affecting air travel. The new Transportation Department rule caps tarmac delays at three hours and sets minimum requirements for proper care of passengers while they’re stuck on the plane. The rule took effect at the […]

Andrew P. Kalick purchased tickets for a North West Airlines flight from Kansas City to Philadelphia and was denied boarding as the flight was full. An NWA agent advised Kalick that she had instead booked him on an American Airlines flight to Philadelphia with a layover in Dallas. For reasons that are unclear from the

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected an airline industry challenge to a regulation letting airport operators charge more at busy times of the day to reduce delays.The carriers argued the July 2008 regulation by the Transportation Department was discriminatory and unreasonable. The airlines also claimed the regulation wrongfully allowed state

The Chinese government has banned the use of “negative historical figures or literary works” to boost tourism, a new decree says.The Ministry of Culture and the state Administration of Cultural Heritage also said places cannot claim to be the birthplaces or hometowns of characters from fiction or legend, Xinhua, the official government news agency, said.

Tourists in Bangkok are being warned not to buy food for street elephants or risk a 10,000 baht (310 dollars) fine in the latest clampdown on begging by owners of the animals.The Thai authorities have repeatedly attempted to stamp out the problem of elephant handlers, known as mahouts, walking the creatures in the capital and

British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia won EU antitrust clearance on Wednesday to deepen their Oneworld alliance on transatlantic routes and better compete with rival groups.The airlines want to broaden their pact to take advantage of the “Open Skies” agreement between the United States and the European Union, which liberalizes transatlantic aviation.The carriers offered in

In a working group chaired by Stephan Keiler and finalised in intensive discussions during the workshop held in Moscow this April, IFTTA Europe has elaborated a position paper on the review of the European Package Travel Directive which was presented to the European Commission at a stakeholders’ workshop in Brussels.This position paper which is focussing

Thomas Cook Group PLC – Europe’s second-largest travel company – agreed to buy the German tour operator Öger Tours GmbH, a specialist in package holidays and tours to Turkey(about 400.000 passengers; revenues: about 250 millionen Euro in 2009).Vural Oeger, founder and manager, plans to sell 100 percent of the company’s shares to Thomas Cook for

The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010The EC Habitats Directive was implemented in the UK by a series of Habitats Regulations. The Directive aims to protect biodiversity by conservation of natural habitats and species of wild flora and fauna. The aim of the 2010 Regulations is to consolidate more than 30 amendments introduced over

DFR Properties Ltd. v Glen House Properties 2007 SC 74.The Court of Session held that a term can only be implied to be part of a contract insofar as it is not inconsistent with the express terms.