Air Canada and Porter Airlines Inc., along with 16 other applicants that include the International Air Transport Association, argue that payments required under the country’s three-year-old passenger rights charter violate international standards and should be rendered invalid.
First filed in 2019, the court application states the new provisions contravene the Montreal Convention, a multilateral treaty, by setting compensation amounts based on the length of the delay and “irrespective of the actual damage suffered.” The filing also says nullifying the regulations “would avoid the confusion to passengers” who could be subject to travel regimes from multiple jurisdictions on international flights.
Under the federal rules, passengers have to be compensated up to $2,400 if they were denied boarding because a flight was overbooked, and receive up to $2,100 for lost or damaged luggage. Delays and other payments for cancelled flights warrant compensation of up to $1,000. The issue took on renewed relevance to thousands of Canadians starting in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions prompted mass flight cancellations and grounded fleets.This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 6, 2022.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
No surprise at all. Air Canada will always try to suck blood out of it's passengers. Always over priced and under serviced and now this...
Corporations over people. Courts need to set a precedent of people first here.
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Lol….what a joke…be more accountable!
“We the airline dont want to be held financially responsible for being trash and screwing over people who fly more then we already do”
Well my take on this is that they don’t wanna finish paying people for stuff that happened between 2020 and now 2022. How sad. Wait oh they’re out money gosh how sad that they are out money. While we have all been sitting around left stuck with what nothing. No money no jobs etc.
Shocked I tell you, shocked to see Air Canada opposing anything that would compensate the passengers for their crappy customer service.
They look and say, well the gvt doesn’t recognize charter rights so why do we have passenger rights