Re: British Airways refused boarding

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You want to sue BA for failing to warn you to not break the
law?????? I can already hear those cash registers ringing.

On 4/18/06, PK wrote:
> OK here is the story:
> My wife had to go to India in a hurry because her father
was
> ill. She bought a British Airways ticket but was stopped in
> Philadelphia apparently because she needed a air-side
> transit visa for passing through London. She is a permanent
> resident and I found out later that 2 years back they
> instituted a new rule saying that this visa is required is
> the US permanent residence was issued before April 21st
> 1998. Guess what hers was issued Nov 1997. She eventually
> made it to India by KLM.
>
> Bad luck you would say. But here is the rest of the story:
> She was issued a boarding pass in Pittsburg for her flight
> out of Philadelphia to London to Delhi. They checked her
> documents in Pittsburgh and the only reason they found it
> out in Philly was because she went to the counter to change
> her seat. Bad luck again. Otherwise, no one would have
found
> it out. We did not know.
>
> And here is the last part. She went to India June 2005 by
> British Airways and no one stopped her for not having a
> air-side transit visa both ways. And this rule was supposed
> to have gone into effect 2yrs back.
>
> Can we sue BA?
> - for not mentioning this requirement on their webiste
> when they have several other warnings and not this one.
> Plus, they require you to input all passport and green card
> info. So they could have easily warned us long before.
> - for failing to stop her from going the first time. And
> thus violating UKs immigration rules and jeopardizing my
> wife's safety. Because if she were caught the first time
> then it would have been a nightmare.
>
> Thanks for reading so far.