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Should I Take The Case?

A weekly feature in which I ask readers if I should mediate a case.

The airline says their seats are unique products, and loathe the idea of "commoditization" which says all seats are basically the same.

Does this “disgusted” passenger deserve a full refund?

January 26, 2024January 7, 2014 by Christopher Elliott

Airlines often speak from both sides of their mouth.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
The circumstances of Saundra Lyon-Reiser's recent home rental were less than ideal. She'd gathered her extended family to bury her mother.

I didn’t scratch the floor on my vacation rental – why should I have to pay?

January 26, 2024December 31, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

The circumstances of Saundra Lyon-Reiser’s recent home rental were less than ideal. She’d gathered her extended family in Aptos, Calif., to bury her mother and grieve their collective loss.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
If an airline tells you it offers a more humane way to travel, should you hold it to that promise? The question David's case raised.

Happy holidays? JetBlue slams grieving grandson with booking fee, walk-up fare

January 26, 2024December 24, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

If an airline tells you it offers a more humane way to travel, should you hold it to that promise?

Categories Should I Take The Case?
You know the ding-and-dent car rental scam? Sure you do. Rent a car, and the agents tell you "not to worry" about the little scratches.

Is Advantage trying to scam me for damage to my rental car?

January 26, 2024December 10, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

You know the ding-and-dent car rental scam? Sure you do.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
Watch where you're going. Maybe that's all Orlan Boston and his fiancee, Tomas, needed to do in order to prevent the accident from happening.

Almost lost my eye in Mykonos

January 23, 2024December 3, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Watch where you’re going.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
No one ever complains about airport parking lots because these businesses typically say what they do and do what they say.

Locked out of the parking lot at Newark – can I get a refund?

January 23, 2024November 26, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

No one ever complains about airport parking lots because these businesses typically say what they do and do what they say. In other words, it’s a place to park.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
John Esser's recent return flight north "headed south," so to speak. He'd like Delta airline to make things right.

What’s the correct compensation for this Delta flight delay?

January 23, 2024November 19, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

John Esser’s recent return flight north “headed south,” so to speak. He’d like the airline to make things right.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
It's unusual to cover something I just heard about a few hours ago. It's even more unusual to redact the name of both passenger, airline.

I have until Friday to cough up $14,000 – should I pay?

January 23, 2024November 12, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Given my backlog of cases, it’s unusual to cover about something I just heard about a few hours ago. It’s even more unusual to redact the name of both the passenger and the airline.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
I'll admit that I poke fun at the "entitleds" behind the curtain as much as the next guy wedged into one of those sardine-class airline seats.

What to do when your lie-flat seat doesn’t lie flat

January 23, 2024November 5, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

OK, I’ll admit that I poke fun at the “entitleds” behind the curtain as much as the next guy wedged into one of those sardine-class airline seats.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
Before I tell you about Justin Cohen's case, he likes kids. He's a former teacher and has a "high tolerance" for unruly youngsters.

“Unintentional things can and do happen during flights”

January 23, 2024October 29, 2013 by Christopher Elliott

Before I tell you about Justin Cohen’s case, there are one or two things he wants everyone to know. He likes kids. He’s a former teacher and has a “high tolerance” for unruly youngsters.

Categories Should I Take The Case?
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