IFTTA News - Recent Items

• USA: Federal Aviation Administration to reexamine passenger use of portable electronic devices on board aircraft;
•  CJEU: no distance contract required for consumer forum pursuant to Brussels I Regulation; 
• USA: court decides on passenger complaint against cruise ship operator; 
• USA: defamation lawsuit against TripAdvisor dismissed; 
• Bulgaria: new tourism legislation in parliament; 
• California: new law allows travel agents to sell travel insurance; 
• Australia: Indonesian national airline not immune from legal action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; 
• USA: cruise ship forum-selection clause upheld;
• Germany: one more reference for ECJ preliminary ruling on Reg. (EC) 261/2004; 
• Florida: Costa Concordia lawsuit dismissed; 
• European Court of Justice decides in two denied boarding cases; 
• Austria: reference for ECJ preliminary ruling on Brussels I-Regulation; 
• Travel Agent Arbiter in US Digitizes all substantive decisions; 
• Single European Sky: 10 years on and still not delivering; 
• German Supreme Court: no air transport contract for passenger "Still Unknown"; 
• UK: Birmingham County Court decides in broken glass door case; 
• ECJ reconfirms "Sturgeon" decision; 
• Germany: Supreme Court decides on international jurisdiction with regard to letting of holiday homes; 
• ECJ decides on VAT taxation of in-house transport services provided by a travel agent; 
• Austrian Supreme Court: domain "hotel.eu" registered in bad faith; 
• German Supreme Court: no compensation from non-EU carrier for delay of connecting fligth departing from non-EU airport; 
• Germany: court decides that airline can ban OTA from access to its booking website; 
• CLIA: new safety policies for global cruise industry; 
• ECJ clarifies time limit for court actions under EU Air Passenger Rights Regulation; 
• ECJ: Rail passengers must be given information on main connecting services, whichever railway undertaking operates them; 
• ECJ decides on airlines' liability for checked baggage pursuant to the Montreal Convention; 
• U.S.-DOT: new rules for charter operators;
• Canada: class action over expiring loyalty program points; 
• USA: DOT fines Travelzoo for violation of Code-Share Disclosure Rules; 
• USA: Federal Trade Commission requires hotels to disclose all mandatory surcharges; 
• EU-Commission updates Airline Blacklist; 
• USA: DOT fines Vision Airlines for charter violations; 
• IFTTA Law Review 3-2012 available online; 
• California: Attorney General files Law Suit against Delta Airlines over mobile app; 
• German Supreme Court: consumer entitled to cancel cruise to the Caribbean because of ash cloud preventing him to fly; 
• USA: airlines to challenge DOT advertising rule before U. S. Supreme Court; 
• USA: DOT collected USD 3.6 M in fines for air passenger rule violations in 2012