Northwest sues Sabre over ticket fees
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Northwest Airlines Corp. filed suit against Sabre Travel Network in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota alleging that Sabre instituted measures that will make it more difficult for the carrier to sell tickets.
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The Federation of Tour Operators launches a legal challenge to Air Passenger Duty, which was doubled at the start of this month.
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(InfoWorld) - Washington State's highest court on Thursday let a class-action lawsuit alleging overcharging by Cingular Wireless go forward. The state Supreme Court said a clause in Cingular's contract that prevented subscribers from starting class-action suits was unfair and sent the case back to the trial court in King County where it began. The suit was filed in 2004 on behalf of a small number of Washington customers of Cingular Wireless, now part of AT&T Inc. It said the carrier advertised free roaming in areas covered by AT&T Wireless, which was then a separate company, but hit the customers with roaming charges anyway. It also said customers were improperly charged for long distance on some calls, said Douglas Dunham, an attorney representing the plaintiffs. They alleged Cingular had overcharged customers between $1 and $40 per month. The plaintiffs' attempt to start a class-action suit was blocked by a clause in the Cingular customer contract, which said disgruntled subscribers couldn't form or join classes to sue the carrier. As a result, they didn't even get to the stage of finding out how many customers in Washington or nationally may have been affected, Dunham said. Now that they have won on appeal, the plaintiffs will pursue a class action, he said. AT&T is studying the ruling, spokesman Walt Sharp said. The carrier could appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to F. Paul Bland, staff attorney at Public Justice, a public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C., that helped argue the plaintiffs' case. In cases involving small amounts of money, consumers need to be able to pursue class actions, Bland said. "Cingular was trying to write a contract term that would make it impossible for their customers to vindicate their legal rights ... if Cingular cheated them out of small sums of money," Bland said. "Even though Cingular broke its contract and engaged in a bait-and-switch that netted it millions of dollars, almost no individuals would ever be able to take their claims forward and get justice." The decision will make it harder for other companies, such as credit card issuers, to introduce similar bans on class-action suits in Washington, Dunham predicted. In the Cingular case, it will probably take several months to get the class of plaintiffs certified and to gauge damages, he said. The case might not go to trial for two years, he added.
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VirnetX is seeking damages and an injunction against the Redmond, Wash., software giant.
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Multiple firms including Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group have bid for Sabre Holdings , owner of the Travelocity Web site, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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A dispute between Northwest Airlines  Corp. NWAC.O and Sabre Holdings Corp. TSG.N intensified on  Wednesday as the airline sued Sabre for changing the way it  displays fares on its computerized reservation system.
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Seattle officials filed a lawsuit Monday to keep the SuperSonics from leaving town, saying the team's profitability in much-maligned KeyArena ''has less to do with KeyArena than perhaps the Sonics' ability to defend the high pick-and-roll.''.
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Travelers will have to pay up to $10 more for a roundtrip ticket on UAL Corp's  United Airlines and $14 more on Continental Airlines , as the airlines seek to offset the rising cost of jet fuel.
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Beginning Friday, travelers on Northwest Airlines will have to pay as much as $10 extra to buy tickets by phone or in person, rather than through Northwest's Web site.  -The Washington Post
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The Northwest Airlines Corporation sued a major distributor of its tickets on Wednesday in a broadening dispute over new fees for customers and travel agents who do not buy tickets on Northwest&#39;s Web sites.
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Bankrupt Northwest Airlines Corp.   on Monday posted a wider quarterly net loss, but  said that excluding costs related to its reorganization, it saw  a profit.
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The bidding war for bankrupt ATA Airlines&#39; assets heated up on Friday when Southwest Airlines offered at least $100 million in cash and loans for gates at Chicago&#39;s Midway Airport and an alliance with ATA, its main rival there.
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MILWAUKEE - Midwest Airlines is turning to dogs and cats in hopes of wooing more consumers. Midwest announced a new program Monday that gives pets a free round-trip ticket for every three domestic round-trip flights they take with their owners.
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Northwest Airlines Corp. , the No. 4 U.S. air carrier, on Wednesday posted a quarterly loss, versus a profit a year earlier, as high fuel prices and low fares weighed on the industry.
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Northwest Airlines (NWAC), a relative financial stalwart in its troubled industry, may be approaching a cash crisis that few have seen coming.
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CHICAGO : Controversial new Northwest Airlines fees for tickets booked by telephone or in person at airport counters went into force.
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Northwest Airlines said it would pay unsecured creditors roughly three-quarters of what they were owed.