American Airlines Loses in Court: Customer Who Paid Baggage Fee Can Sue for Delayed Luggage

May 03 2017

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling today that a customer who paid US Airways $15 for a checked bag could sue the airline (and potentially certify a class action) for return of their $15 because their bag wasn’t delivered the same day. This case is now being argued by American Airlines, since US Airways and American merged three and a half years ago.

If an airline is going to promise timely delivery of a bag, and fails to do so, a customer can sue.

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The Best Thing About Each Travel Provider

May 02 2017

This is a lightning round, I’m going to give one quick thing that overwhelms everything else and I’m not going to offer a detailed explanation — just a simple statement of the one best thing about an airline, a hotel chain, or a rental car company.

These choices are, of course, influenced by my idiosyncratic preferences — but I think they stand up:

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