Northwest, in fee dispute, sues distributor of its tickets
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Northwest Airlines Corp. sued a major distributor of its tickets on Wednesday, continuing a spat over new fees for customers and travel agents who don&#39;t buy tickets on Northwest&#39;s Web sites.
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The state's 83-year-old prohibition on ticket scalping may be coming to an end. The Legislature's Consumer Affairs and Professional Licensure Committee reported out a bill yesterday that would scrap the existing antiscalping law and allow tickets to be resold at any price. The bill is expected to come up for a vote in the House this week.
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Northwest Airlines Corp. canceled controversial fees on tickets bought through some travel agents after the agents and fare distributors objected and rivals didn&#39;t match the higher cost.
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An eBay seller and Universal Music Group are battling in a legal case that could have wider implications for a consumer's right to resell purchased music.
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Northwest Airlines filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Sabre Travel Network, intensifying a dispute between the airline and the nationâs largest provider of airline booking information to travel agents.
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Kansas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a pharmaceutical distributor accused of trying to gouge a pharmacy for flu vaccine at more than 1,000 percent the usual cost.
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A company specializing in reselling Red Sox tickets told a Quincy District Court judge yesterday that it complied with the state's antiscalping law when it offered to sell a ticket with an $80 face value for $500 because nearly all of the markup was for legitimate expenses.
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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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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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Northwest Airlines Corp. reported a bigger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss of $420 million on Wednesday, and blamed high fuel costs and fare cuts by competitors.
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Northwest Airlines said yesterday that it had canceled a new fee it charged travel agencies for a round-trip domestic ticket booked through global distribution systems, effective immediately.
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When Northwest Airlines Corp. said last week it will charge extra fees for tickets not bought on its Web site, it caused a chain reaction in an industry still grappling with the impact of the Internet.
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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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A VIDEO GAME fan upset over an apparently &quot;tiggered&quot; disk drive in his Xbox video game console has sued the vendor of the game gear, Microsoft, on behalf of users everywhere.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Pilots for Northwest Airlines Corp. said Thursday that negotiators have agreed to $265 million in concessions. As part of the tentative agreement, Northwest managers agreed to $35 million in concessions of their own.
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Bankrupt Northwest Airlines Corp. on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss largely on expenses related to its restructuring.
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CHICAGO : Controversial new Northwest Airlines fees for tickets booked by telephone or in person at airport counters went into force.