Flight Risk

Jewish Week, The, February, 2005 by Birkner, Gabrielle

Birkner, Gabrielle The Jewish Week 02-25-2005 Continental passenger suing airline over alleged downgrading of security measures for Israel trip. An Upper West Side man who flew Continental Airlines from Newark to Tel Aviv last month is alleging that the carrier failed to divulge its decision to reduce pre-boarding security. Jonathan Gould, 48, is suing the airline for the cost of his flight.

Last week he filed a claim against Continental Airlines requesting damages of $978.65 plus expenditures for "non-disclosure of significant decrease in pre-boarding security due to cost-cutting measures." The airline denied trimming security on the route. Gould said that when he flew Continental from Newark Liberty International Airport to Ben Gurion Airport in...

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