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Southwest Legal News
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Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections: Summary
20 Apr 2012 by Sean Barry / No Comments
Welcome back for part 6 of 6 of the discussion of Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections. Last week we talked about the Three Hour Tarmac Rule. The topic for this week is a final summary of the overall impact of this new legislation on the aviation industry.
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Where We Stand With Online Gambling: A Requiem for My Blog
16 Apr 2012 by Andrew Fleischman / No Comments
It’s been a magical run here the past few months, but my blogging time with the good folks of LexisNexis has come to an end. When I first started in January, the DOJ had finally announced it was reversing its long-held position that the Wire Act prohibits all forms of online gambling and instead, was adopting the position that the Wire Act only prohibits online sports gambling. Since then, we’ve chatted about prohibition, the failure of iGaming in D.C., sports gambling in New Jersey, and Utah becoming the first state in the nation to criminalize online poker playing.
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Utah Stays One Step Ahead of the Devil, One Step Behind Progress
30 Mar 2012 by Andrew Fleischman / No Comments
Geographically speaking Utah is the most beautifully diverse state in the country: gorgeous red natural rock formations in the southeast, a desert oasis in the southwest, and pristine snow-capped mountains in the north. When it comes to all other forms of diversity . . . well, let’s just say Utah is lacking in that department.
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Bumping Passengers: Oversales and Denied Boarding Compensation
10 Mar 2012 by Sean Barry / No Comments
Welcome back to part 4 of 6 of the discussion of Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections. Last week we talked about the new Full Fare Advertising rule. The topic for this week is the Oversales and Denied Boarding Compensation requirements.
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Enhancing Airline’s Passenger Protections: Full Fare Advertising
25 Feb 2012 by Sean Barry / No Comments
The Full Fare Advertising rule requires that airfare advertising must include the full fare including governmentally imposed taxes the first time a fare is displayed. Traditionally airlines advertised the prices that they were charging the consumer for airfare. This approach probably sounds very common because it is way that almost every other U.S. industry advertises.
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Enhancing Airlines Passenger Protections: Baggage Fees
17 Feb 2012 by Sean Barry / No Comments
In recent years airline passengers have been disgruntled by the emergence of baggage fees, overweight luggage fees, and the variety of other fees that used to be included in the airfare. Airlines make considerable revenue from ancillary fees, which include baggage fees. In the second quarter 2012 the U.S. Airlines collected a total of 887 million dollars in baggage fees.
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