Nacta’s role in car rental suit upsets lawyer By Michael Milligan Originally Posted on www.travelweekly.com WASHINGTON — The attorney representing travel agents in a proposed class-action suit against major car rental firms is miffed that a travel agent trade group filed an affidavit on behalf of Hertz, one of the supplier defendants. The National Association […]
Hall attorneys seek ‘members of the class’By Michael Milligan Originally Posted on www.travelweekly.com WASHINGTON — Attorneys handling the Sarah Hall class-action suit against the major airlines are reviewing ARC data and other information to identify the travel agents who were in business as of October 1997, the boundary set by the courts for defining the […]
Fifth travel law symposium slated for Jan. 15Originally Posted on: www.travelweekly.com WASHINGTON — Travel Weekly and ARTA announced plans for their fifth annual National Travel Law Symposium. Taking the theme, Travel, Technology and the Law, the event is set for the Washington Marriott hotel on Jan. 15. The 2003 symposium, open to all interested travel […]
Travel LawBY ALEXANDER ANOLIK In countries the world over, travel and tourism is one of the largest service industries. In the United States, tourism is one of the three largest businesses in the nation, and the second largest employer. As leisure time and disposable income have increased, and with more corporate travelers servicing their businesses […]
On the Road with Bill McGee Most of us intend to prevent trouble before it even starts by making good travel planning decisions and straightening out problems as they arise. But every traveler knows that sooner or later they’ll take "The Trip from Hell." And then the trip turns into being all about filing a […]
TravelAgeWest http://www.travelagewest.com/newsarticle.asp?articleid=491 ARTA’s Chairman Nancy Linares told her membership last week that the association would ask commission settlement company NPC to hold off implementing new fees for its Commission Express program or face retaliation. Linares said that in the past, NPC has sent checks (twice a week, in many cases) to participating agencies for commissions […]
LA TIMES: TRAVEL Q&ABundled fees, a hornet’s nestBy: Laurie BergerMarch 6, 2005 Originally Posted on http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-qa6mar06,1,1428902.column?ctrack=1&cset=true Question: I recently booked a stay at the Westin Resort & Spa in Whistler, British Columbia, through Orbitz and was charged 20% in taxes and fees. After the trip, I wrote to Orbitz for a refund of the 7% […]
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-travelqa22aug22,1,5104892.columnTRAVEL Q&AAn online rental-car runaroundA traveler with a confirmed reservation was left stranded. Here’s what should have happened.Laurie BergerTravel Q&A August 22, 2004 Question: I booked a weekend car rental one Friday in June through http://www.expedia.com . I received what I thought was a "rental agreement" from Expedia guaranteeing my reservation and a $9.99-a-day rate […]
TRAVEL Q&AAn online rental-car runaroundA traveler with a confirmed reservation was left stranded. Here’s what should have happened.Laurie Berger Originally Posted on: http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/news/la-tr-travelqa22aug22,0,7739475,print.column?coll=la-classifieds-autos-news August 22, 2004 Question: I booked a weekend car rental one Friday in June through http://www.expedia.com . I received what I thought was a "rental agreement" from Expedia guaranteeing my reservation and […]
With an increase in bankruptcies, travel insurers’ business booming By Barry EstabrookNew York Times Posted Sept. 4, 2003 For those aboard the ship World Discoverer, an Around the Ring of Fire cruise proved memorable — perhaps too much so. The small luxury ship sailed last spring from the Japanese island of Hokkaido with a full […]
By Kevin Brass http://www.travelagewest.com/newsarticle.asp?articleid=2420 It began two years ago when an irate client confronted Cecilia Pedroza with a car rental bill for $100 more than she said the car would cost. Unaware of the fees the rental car agency had tacked on to the bill after she booked the reservation, at first Pedroza, owner of […]
By Jorge Sidron Travel Weekly June 23, 2003 San Francisco—Six major car rental companies have been slapped with a class-action lawsuit accusing them of “systematically and regularly” underreporting and underpaying travel agent commissions. The lawsuit, filed by four travel agencies and an individual agent in state superior court in San Diego, alleges that the […]
By Peter Splingaerd, All Travel, Phoenix http://www.travelagewest.com/newsarticle.asp?articleid=1743 I was delighted to receive notice from the law firm of Anderson, Daniel & Coxe that a federal judge has certified a class-action lawsuit against the major airlines for antitrust behavior in colluding to reduce and eliminate travel agency commissions. This is a major breakthrough in the defense […]