Thesilb,

I have to disagree with you here. You and I know that many many lawsuits are filed just to get the other party to blink, without any real intention of actually going to court. My wife is a lawyer and explains to me that this type of posturing is done ALL the time.

The mere intention to gain media attention is not necessarily a bad thing, because CO has seemingly got away with Hokey fares...informing more travel consumers about this practice would definitely be beneficial to all airline travellers.

It does appear that venk has played the Hokey game before and lost, see this thread for details: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...L/004494.html.

It may make more sense to have a class action lawsuit filed instead of a single case Venk vs. Continental airlines. It may be worth speaking about this with a class action lawyer in Houston. Perhaps thesilb or Houstonattorney can comment on the pros/cons of a class action case??