Airline must shell out $800 for seafood that spoiled in misplaced suitcase, small-claims court says

A B.C. small-claims court says ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines has to shell out nearly $800 to compensate a passenger for a bag full of fish products that went rotten during the five days his luggage was delayed.

Brian Vu packed a suitcase full of crab meat, fish cakes, sea cucumbers and dandelion root in defiance of a plane ticket warning passengers not to put perishable items in checked luggage.

But in a decision released this week, a member of B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal said it wasn’t the contents of the bag that mattered as much as the fact a Flair employee agreed to check the