Originally Posted by
Deltahater
The Canadians, however, have ordered LX to reinstate the tickets 2-3 times now and LX has appealed every time. 17 months and $200-400K in legal fees later, LX is still fighting everybody tooth and nail on this. Another decision will come next Wednesday.
So, to all who think that since DOT fines are more expensive than reinstating the tickets, an airline will be rational and honor the tickets, might want to think twice.
You yourself noted the DOT chose not to intervene on the LX fare, a fare which, as ticketed, did not have the USA as the origin or destination.
However, 1) that isn't the case here, and 2) $400,000 in legal fees, while apparently sufficiently large enough for you to prove that the airlines aren't simply going to lay over, is all but immaterial.
$400,000 / $25,000 is a whopping
sixteen tickets. Some on here have booked that many
alone. Even a conservative assumption of 100 tickets being booked on this EY "mistake" makes that $400,000 legal fee bill look like "dinner and movie" money.
So, again, if the DoT chooses to intervene here, there is only one real choice for EY: Reinstatement (or some other settlement with consumers).