FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - [FARE GONE] Wickedly Low Biz Class Fare from YYZ to LCA (Cyprus) on AZ (Alitalia)
Old Apr 6, 2006 | 7:57 am
  #1457  
HeathrowGuy
Suspended
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Programs: Continental Gold Elite, United Premier Executive
Posts: 6,766
The travel agent is an agent for the airline (principal). In the US, we generally hold the principal liable for the actions of its agents, when such agents are acting (or even appear to be acting) within the scope of the authority granted by the principal. All of this is to say that it was Alitalia that sold the ticket in the USA - Orbitz was the duly-authorized agent that established the contract on Alitalia's behalf.
HeathrowGuy is offline