Originally Posted by
hoipolloi
Didn’t read the whole thing but it sounds like a rehash of AC’s response to passenger filed complaint (discussed earlier in this thread) that DoT’s Industry Letter is not binding as it didn’t go thru rule making process (APA). DoT had fully authority for decades (not just years) under various Republican and Democratic Administrations to prohibit the the practice frowned upon in the Letter with explicit regulations but choose not to.
If AC loses, other airlines are not going to be happy with them.
I was worried a couple of months ago when AC started providing refunds that the resolution is anticlimactic but sounds like I should be making some popcorn.