Goal indemnify passengers for delays in Argentina
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The Justice of Rio Grande do Sul Goal ordered to pay $ 4.5 thousand to the court of law Giovanni Conti and additional $ 6 thousand to his wife, the prosecutor Carmen Conti, material and moral damages resulting from the retention of couple for more than 20 hours at Ezeiza International Airport in Argentina. The decision was taken on February 19 by the Third Class of the Civil Recursal Special Civil Courts of the State in the trial of actions brought by authors and also by the defendant against decision of First Degree.
Conti The couple was among the 900 people who spent almost all of the Monday, May 5, 2008, squeezed into the board room of the Argentine airport. Passengers claim they have not yet been informed at check-in delays that occur with several flights scheduled for the morning of that day. Also reported that, in the boarding room, were several hours without information, without assistance and without referral to more comfortable accommodations.
Passengers recall also that despite being thousands, had to cluster in the small space available, from snacks to eat in the cafeteria and divide only a few toilets in the local, insufficient for such demand. In defense, argued Goal illegitimacy passive, because it is chartered flight, and presented reasons for the delay was caused by unfavorable weather. The company argued that the reason of force majeure prevent the causal link exempting it from liability.
The judges rejected the illegitimacy passive arguing that while the operator also respond by cancellation of charter flights, this fact does not exempt the airline from liability. They also stressed that the election indenizatório is not based only on the cancellation of the flight, but substantially exacerbated the delay for delivery of other aircraft and the lack of attention to passengers. The higher compensation to the woman found that she suffered more damage, having lost honor of Mother's Day planned by the school of your child of seven years. Sought by the report, Gol informed by advice from his press, which does not comment on the case.
Source: State Agency
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