Under Rehder, a passenger may sue the airline in the courts of which jurisdictions?

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The main idea here is where a passenger can sue an airline in cases arising from international air carriage. Rehder established that the action is properly heard in the courts of either the departure city or the arrival city. This is because the contract of carriage and its performance are linked to both ends of the journey—the place where the passenger begins the trip and the place where the trip ends. Since the injury or loss can relate to either leg of the journey and both locations have a direct connection to the contract and its performance, both cities are appropriate forums. It would be less appropriate to fix the action only in the airline’s principal place of business, as that location has a more distant connection to the particular passenger’s travel and the incident, whereas the departure and arrival points have a closer, more concrete nexus to the dispute.