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Judge orders airline to compensate passenger for rotten fish in his lost luggage [1]
['David Pescovitz']
Date: 2024-03-16
Brian Vu's suitcase was a veritable smorgasbord of seafood when he boarded a flight from British Columbia to Ontario operated by Canadian ultra-low-coast Flair Airlines. That's when things turned rotten. Even though passengers are prohibited from putting perishables in their luggage, Vu had stuffed his satchel with crab meat, fish cakes, sea cucumbers, and other delicacies. Unfortunately, the airline lost his luggage.
When the bag was located five days later, the seafood had unsurprisingly gone bad. Vu filed a suit in small claims court. Sounds fishy but a member of British Columbia's Civil Resolution Tribunal ruled in his favor.
"The Canadian Transportation Agency has repeatedly held that if an airline accepts checked baggage then the airline assumes liability for the baggage even if the airline has not agreed to transport certain items," Tribunal member Peter Mennie stated.
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