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Northwest Airlines Vs. Delfin S. Catapang

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, Petitioner, versus DELFIN S. CATAPANG, Respondent.

G.R. No. 174364 | 2009-07-30

D E C I S I O N


CARPIO MORALES, J.:

Delfin S. Catapang (respondent), a lawyer and, at the time material to the case at bar, Assistant Vice President and Head of the Special Projects Department, Corporate Services Division of the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), was directed by UCPB to go to Paris on a business trip. As he intended to proceed, after his trip to Paris, to the United States to visit his
siblings, he requested First United Travel, Inc. (FUT) to issue him a ticket that would allow rebooking or rerouting of flights within the United States.

Complying with respondent's requirement, FUT informed him, via telephone, that...