Legal Opinion
Harrington v. American Airlines
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 7, 2007No. 06-1625PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
When the plaintiffs in this case purchased nonrefundable airline tickets that they ultimately were unable to use, they received no payback of any kind. In the lawsuit that followed, they conceded that they were correctly denied any refund of their base fares but' accused the airlines of unlawfully failing to refund various fees and taxes that had been collected as part of the original ticket prices. The plaintiffs’ core theory was that the word “nonrefundable” pertained only to their base fares, not to the various other charges (none of which became due without…
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