Originally Posted by jugaadkabaap

You are missing the key difference;

AFKLM entered into a contract with the class. Class being all passengers who purchased the supposed fare. AFKLM is attempting to withdraw from the contract. Only possible way for AFKLM to unilaterally withdraw from the contract is to establish before the jurisprudent that a valid contract was never established in the first place ; ie the contract established was erroneous and thereby deem null and void establishing status quo between parties.

You cannot argue that a contract is a mistake ONLY to a subsection of class while it’s honored for another subsection. It’s either a mistake OR it’s NOT a mistake.

Say the fare attached to 15K booking YUL - ZAG was coded as A123YULZAGXYZ.

If it’s established that A123YULZAGXYZ is an invalid fare, then everyone who got into contract based on that fare is having an invalid contract.

Now is A123YULZAGXYZ a valid fare for some ? If yes, A123YULZAGXYZ should be valid for everyone who got into contract on similar grounds.


AFKLM is free to advertise a special promo rate especially to their elites and allow them to book into that fare ; that’s perfectly fine. Or provide a discount in pricing based on elite status - that’s also fine. All that’s valid when it’s advertised as such, targeted as such before getting into the contract.

But they cannot go back in time and say that “oh we made a mistake but the mistake only applies to certain people and for the rest it’s not a mistake”