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On Oct. 17, American Airlines filed a law suit against Yahoo in U.S. District Court Fort Worth alleging trademark infringement related to Yahoo’s paid Sponsor Results.American Airlines seeks an order to temporarily and permanently bar Yahoo from selling the airline’s trademarks, continuing to publish ads using keyword terms “identical or confusingly similar” to the airline’s […]

An Edmonton woman has launched an $85,000 lawsuit against Air Canada, alleging her vacation abroad was ruined when she was scalded as a result of an airline attendant spilling a hot beverage on her. She also alleges the Air Canada staff failed to treat her burn in accordance with reasonable first aid. She claims to

A Travel Weekly analysis of airport departure times throughout the summer confirms that Airplanes taking off from New York-area airports (JFK, La Guardia, Newark) are more likely to leave late than planes departing other major regions, and that by a significant margin.One trend common to all airports was a reasonably high on-time departure rate for

Plaintiff had booked a package tour to Iceland including a flight from Düsseldorf to Reykjavik via Amsterdam. Due to a technical problem the flight from Amsterdam to Reykjavik was delayed. After waiting six hours the plaintiff booked a return flight from Amsterdam to Düsseldorf on his own and returned home the same day. He argued

German Supreme Court (BGH) once again instituted proceedings on the interpretation of Reg. 261/2004 on air passenger rights. In the case concerend a flight from/to Berlin was part of a package tour to Turkey. During the trip the tour organizer changed the booking for the return flight and rerouted passengers to another flight of the

Last week the European Commission presented a Proposal for a Directive on Consumer Rights COM (2008) 614/3 which shall merge 4 existing EU consumer directives into one set of rules.For the first time it intends to move away from the minimum harmonisation approach in the former Directives (cf recital no 2).According to Art 3 No

The main conclusion of this year’s World Tourism Day (WTD) Think Tank held on the theme ”Tourism Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change” was that tourism growth must be pursued with increasing emphasis on ethics, local community involvement as well as reducing carbon emissions systematically.A group of leading public and private tourism stakeholders, representatives

The orbital path of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world’s sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials.Multi-millionaire US businessman Garriott is the son of US astronaut Owen Garriott. He paid more than 30 million dollars (20 million euros)

A group of travel agents in Florida sued the state over a new law requiring agents who book trips to Cuba to post a USD 250,000 bond and disclose their clients’ names. Earlier this month, a federal judge lifted the measure temporarily to consider the law’s legality.Before the measure was signed into law in June

Tourism in Antarctica has grown dramatically. In 1985, just a few thousand people visited the area but in the season 2007/2008 more than 40,000 did the same. Increasing tourism on Antarctica can result into a threat for the vulnerable South Pole area.Antarctica is not a sovereign state and so legislation is difficult. With strict guidelines