Originally Posted by
Tchiowa
That's strange. The lawsuit is about the Kuwait Air website not having Israel in the drop down box for nationality so he couldn't buy a ticket. Not sure what the DOT has to do with that.
But our legal system is a bit screwy.
The DOT -- and by the DOT, I mean an unelected bureaucrat at the DOT -- decided that Kuwait Air's refusal to transport Israelis (in this case on the JFK-LHR route) does not constitute discrimination. The federal lawsuit, as I understand it, challenges that decision.