U.S. Fines Company for Unwarranted Charter Flights for College Teams

The U.S. Department of Transportation has fined a small company $120,000 for selling charter flights to college athletics teams without the legal authority to do so. According to an order issued by the federal agency, Global Airlines Services (whose website no longer appears to be operational; a cached version of the site can be found here) and its owner, Harold J. Pareti, contracted with universities to transport their sports teams, and then arranged for actual airline carriers to provide the service -- even though Global "did not hold proper authority" from the Transportation Department to broker such arrangements.