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Originally Posted by Shaggy
True, but they're not letting people outside the age range sign up for the holiday, pay their money, and then deny it based on the clauses in a contract. They prevent them from signing up in the first place. That's not quite the same thing.
An equivalent would be if a holiday company let someone who was 49 sign up for a cruise that required people to be under 50, pay their money, and then kick them off the ship without a refund because they had a birthday during the cruise. I think the individual would have a much stronger case for age discrimination in that scenario.
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Having a birthday is not really something someone can choose to do or not and is therefore a bit of a stretch as an analogy. I think a more accurate example would be if someone signed up for a cruise claiming to be under 50 years of age and then the cruise company found out that person was lying and was actually over 50 years of age. In that case the company would certainly be within their rights to remove the person from the cruise.
Frankly, in that situation I don't see how anyone could even suggest the person found to be lying about their age was being mistreated or wronged. They knowingly broke the terms of service and were rightly removed from the cruise.
Cheers,
PKFFW