CEO says they used American Airlines logos without approval to market tickets

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The CEO and founder of Skiplagged Inc., a website that promotes the practice known in the airline industry as “hidden city ticketing,” testified Monday that...

FORT WORTH — The CEO and founder of Skiplagged Inc., a website that promotes the practice known in the airline industry as “trademarked logos for years without permission, directed passengers to the airline’s site to purchase tickets even though Skiplagged is not an authorized ticketing agent for American Airlines and warned its customers not to mention that they were buying their tickets through Skiplagged.

“It is the classic bait and switch: draw consumers in with the promise of secret fares, and instead sell the consumer a ticket at a higher price,” the airline said inIn his opening statement to the jury, Aaron Z. Tobin of Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg of Dallas, told jurors that American waited eight years to sue Zaman’s company, leading the 32-year-old online entrepreneur to believe the airline had no objection to his company’s use of American’s trademarks.

 

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