Best v. BWIA West Indies Airways Ltd.

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• relying on objective indicators such as interline baggage release tag and booking to determine whether flights on two different carriers involved “successive carrier” under article 1(3) or actual carrier under article 39
• defendant airline qualified as “successive carrier” where it sold plaintiff a ticket 10 for both her flight on defendant’s plane and her flight on another airline
• “As a treaty of the United States, the [Montreal] Convention is considered federal law for subject matter jurisdiction purposes and is the supreme law of the land.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).