ARTICLE 8: REFUSAL AND LIMITATION ON CARRIAGE1. Right to refuse carriage
In the reasonable exercise of its discretion, Carrier may refuse to carry the passenger or his baggage if one or more of the following have occurred or if Carrier reasonably believes may occur:
a) such action is necessary in order to comply with any applicable government laws, regulations or orders of any state to be flown from, into or over;
b) the carriage of the passenger and his baggage may endanger or affect the safety, health or materially affect the comfort of other passengers or crew;
c) the conduct, age or mental or physical state of the passenger is, or reasonably seems to be such as to:
c.1) require special assistance of Carrier which Carrier cannot reasonably provide;
c.2) cause discomfort or make himself objectionable to other passengers or
c.3) involve any hazard or risk to himself, to passengers, to crew or to property;
d) the passenger has failed to observe any instructions of Carrier or he has refused to submit to a security check by Carrier or any airport or government official;
e) the passenger has not paid the applicable fare, taxes, fees or charges;
f) the passenger does not appear to have valid travel documents, may seek to enter a country through which he may be in transit, or for which he does not a valid entry document, destroy his travel documents during flight or refuse to surrender his travel documents to the flight crew, against receipt, when so requested;
g) the ticket presented by the passenger:
g.1) has been acquired unlawfully or has been purchased from an entity other than the issuing carrier or its authorized agent;
g.2) has been reported as being lost or stolen;
g.3) has any flight coupon either altered by anyone other than the Carrier or its authorized agents, or mutilated;
h) the passenger has failed to comply with the requirements set forth in Article 3/paragraph 4 here above concerning coupon sequence and use;
i) the person presenting the ticket cannot prove that he is the person named in the "NAME OF PASSENGER".
In the above cases f), g), h) and i), Carrier reserves the right to retain ticket.
Special assistance
Carriage of unaccompanied children, incapacitated persons, pregnant women, persons with illness or other people requiring special assistance shall only be performed subject to Carrier's prior consent. Such passengers shall not be subsequently refused carriage on the basis of such disability and/or special requirements.
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