United Airlines sued over Tel Aviv flight disruption

United Airlines is being sued for $50,000 following a delay to one of its flights from Newark to Tel Aviv earlier this month. On August 6th, flight UA84 was scheduled to depart at 16:25, but was subsequently delayed until 07:00 the next day. United Airlines has said that the delay was due to a curfew at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport. However, this does not appear to correlate with what passengers were told at the time. An announcement was made by a gate agent, advising that “the pilots are refusing to take the flight at this time.” A lawsuit has now been filed on behalf of the plaintiff by Migir Ilganayev of the Ilganayev Law Firm, accusing United Airlines of a number of charges, including fraud, breach of contract, and negligence. The summons states, "[United] committed fraud and deceit against Plaintiff and all other passengers when its crew refused to perform their job, and United deliberately, and knowingly lied about the reason for its delay.” Following the delay on August 6th, United Airlines informed passengers that the delay was caused by a curfew, and this was subsequently confirmed as the reason for the delay on the airline’s website. However, when Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post contacted a spokesperson at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport for clarification, it was told that "there is no curfew. At all.”<br/>