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- From: staggers@cup.hp.com (Ken Staggers)
- Subject: Re: Where to file complains when disputing with an airlines?
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:37:08 GMT
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- Ping Huang (pshuang@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
- : On the other hand, does anybody know if anybody has contested in court
- : the validity of these "contracts" outlining what the airline's "sole"
- : obligations are in cases of delayed flights (or luggage loss, etc.) when
- : the customer never signed the contract or saw the terms before payment?
- : (Reminds me in some ways of the "shrink-wrap" license controversy.)
-
- Every ticket should have some rules on the back of it. Ticket jackets have
- more rules on the back. By purchasing and/or using the ticket, you are
- agreeing to these rules. I'll have to look at my NW and AA tickets at
- home. I think the rules are short, but they reference particular airline
- tariffs by number. I guess its perfectly legal to leave it up to the
- consumer to find out what those tariffs are (I have no problem with this).
-
- --Ken
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