Swiss Air Transport Co. v. Benn

OPINION of the court

David B. Saxe, J.

This case involves the issue of loss allocation between an airline and passenger arising out of the unauthorized alteration by an unknown third party of two airline tickets that were purchased by the defendant passenger. The first issue addressed here concerns the rights which an innocent purchaser possesses upon purchase of airline tickets that have been previously altered. The second question is whether an estoppel may be raised against the airline due to its failure to detect these alterations at a reasonable point in time, i.e., confirmation or…