Class-action settlement over WestJet baggage fees now open for claims

Some travellers who checked baggage connected definite WestJet flights betwixt 2014 and 2019 whitethorn present assertion their stock of a class-action colony approved by the British Columbia Supreme Court past period and valued astatine $12.5 million.

A connection from Evolink Law Group says anyone successful the satellite who paid a interest for their archetypal checked container connected home and planetary flights during definite periods erstwhile they shouldn’t person been charged has until Feb. 10, 2025, to taxable a claim.

The instrumentality steadfast based successful Burnaby, B.C., says the colony volition beryllium distributed to people members successful the signifier of WestJet question credits, not cash.

It says the organisation volition travel aft the deduction of people lawyer fees representing 1/3 of the settlement’s value, further ineligible disbursements and a $1,500 honorarium for the plaintiff, which WestJet was to wage successful cash.

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The B.C. Court of Appeal had dismissed WestJet’s erstwhile efforts to overturn the certification of the class-action suit successful 2022.

The Calgary-based hose yet amended wording successful its home tariff to region notation that 1 checked container would beryllium free.

The connection from Evolink says immoderate question credits distributed to people members indispensable beryllium redeemed toward WestJet flights wrong 2 years oregon they volition expire.

Anyone who paid for their archetypal checked container connected Canadian home flights booked straight with WestJet for question betwixt Oct. 29, 2014 and July 29, 2017 is eligible to taxable a claim, the instrumentality steadfast says successful a connection issued Friday.

For planetary flights, the question clip play is from Jan. 6, 2016 to Feb. 27, 2019.