Originally Posted by
harvyk
But they can take you to court and sue you for actual losses incurred by the airline. They can't simply add on charges to credit cards without authorisation, but nothing stops an airline from taking a pax to court to recover costs.
Not in the circumstance we've been discussing. I seriously doubt a registrar would even allow the case to be lodged.
What grounds would they sue under? Loss? They accepted the chance of loss when they agreed to carry the pax
who presented with the correct docs. They know that the pax may still be rejected by Immigration in Oz. The law says they have to return the pax and spells out how that's done. The pax has no control or responsibility for arbitrary (I'm talking in the legal sense there) denial of entry and subsequent removal.
In order to prevail they
must show that the pax is somehow at fault for the loss. Simply "being the pax" doesn't cut it.