Air Passenger Rights is an independent nonprofit organization of volunteers.
Vision
A travelling public aware of its rights and capable of enforcing them against airlines.
Mission
To turn helpless passengers into empowered travellers through education, advocacy, investigation, and litigation.
Activities
- Educate passengers about their rights and enforcement of those rights.
- Advocate for the enforcement of the existing rights of passengers and for better consumer protection for travel by air within, to, and from Canada.
- Investigate and expose anomalies affecting travellers, including but not limited to:
- non-compliance of airlines with their own terms and conditions or the law;
- misinformation and deception of passengers by airlines;
- practices that put passengers’ safety at risk; and
- collusion between the airline industry and regulatory or administrative bodies mandated to oversee the activities of airlines.
- Litigate to foster:
- compliance of airlines with their own terms and conditions and the law;
- conformity of the terms and conditions of airlines with the law;
- transparency, reasonableness, and legality of the actions of regulatory and administrative bodies in their dealings with passengers and airlines; and
- reasonable and correct interpretation of legislation affecting the rights of passengers.