
Emirates pays Tauranga man $13,555 over 'misleading and deceptive' advertising of business class seats
Airline's business class advertising 'misleading and deceptive', Disputes Tribunal finds.

Haven't seen the various state bodies (VCAT or QCAT) enforce fare greater transgressions though.Australia has similar laws here
Emirates claimed the service he had was only a 5% reduction in quality compared to the service it advertised, and had offered a refund of $786.
It told the tribunal that the seats Morgan and his wife received reclined to 166.1 degrees, rather than lying completely flat, but it said: “To the ordinary air-traveller the seat made available is equivalent to a lie-flat seat”.
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Emirates Fined For Misleading Business Class Advertising
Emirates has to pay a passenger over $8,000, after he accused the airline of deceptive and misleading advertising of its business class.onemileatatime.com
I can’t imagine this ever happening in Australia with the cozy ties between Qantas and the Pollies and the lack of a truly effective and empowered regulatory body.
An international treaty will usually override local law, if the country is a signatory to the international law. Or sometimes the treaty is incorporated into local laws, and will therefore apply and override other laws.I suppose this was an issue that would be hard for the airline to claim the matter was part of the Montreal Convention and thus not in the jurisdiction of the Disputes Tribunal, like Qantas has been able to do in Australia's *CAT's in a few recent cases. I did find another case where the Disputes Tribunal's jurisdiction over Montreal Convention matters was denied in a lost baggage case ( Air New Zealand baggage dispute - Insurance law in New Zealand ). So certainly there are situations in which the Montreal Convention can essentially override other NZ law (as the Montreal Convention is legislated in NZ by the Civil Aviation Act 1990).
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An international treaty will usually override local law, if the country is a signatory to the international law. Or sometimes the treaty is incorporated into local laws, and will therefore apply and override other laws.
Not how it works.
It does and is also in the description of business class on their website and I have a screenshot of it.Does the advertising specifically state you can select your seat at anytime? If not, I'm not sure how it's misleading advertising.