Sentences with phrase «airline passenger protections»

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced new airline passenger protections that will require airlines to reimburse passengers for bag fees if their bags are lost, provide consumers involuntarily bumped from flights with greater compensation, expand the current ban on lengthy tarmac delays, and disclose hidden fees.

Title: Department of Transportation Praises U.S. Court of Appeals Decision to Uphold Airline Passenger Protections Link: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/department-transportation-p...

The Department of Transportation is issuing a third «Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections» final rule to enhance protections for air travelers and to improve the air travel environment as follows: expanding the pool of reporting carriers for service quality data; requiring reporting carriers to include service quality data for their domestic scheduled flights operated by their code - share partners; enhancing the Department's code - share disclosure regulation to codify the statutory requirement that carriers and ticket agents must disclose any code - share arrangements on their websites on the first display presented in response to a search of a requested itinerary for each itinerary involving a code - share operation; and prohibiting undisclosed biasing based on carrier identity by carriers and ticket agents in any electronic displays of the fare, schedule or availability information of multiple carriers.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Concerning the Enforcement of the Second Final Rule on Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections (EAPP # 2)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Royal Jordanian Airlines, EgyptAir, and Royal Air Maroc for violating the Department's expanded airline passenger protection rules that took effect in January.

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And even where an airline is later shown to have kicked off a passenger for bad reasons, the law provides the industry with unique liability protections.

Gianaris» platform focuses on fighting pollution from power plants, preventing terrorism and attacks by sexual predators and consumer protection for airline passengers, while Arcabascio's campaign focuses on job creation, more hospitals, deregulation of insurance companies and education reform.

The ministers for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Interior and Defence along with the Minister nominee for the Northern Region caused an over one hour of delay to an Africa World Airlines flight in Tamale to the dismay of passengers.

In addition, the consumer report contains information on passengers denied confirmed space (oversales / bumping) as filed with BTS by the carriers, mishandled baggage reports filed by consumers with the carriers and airline service complaints received by the Department's Aviation Consumer Protection Division.

Spirit Airlines, Allegiant Air, and Southwest Airlines challenged portions of the Department of Transportation's April 2011 air passenger consumer protection rule requiring airlines and ticket agents to include all mandatory taxes and fees in published airfares, hold a reservation without payment or penalty for 24 hours after the reservation is made, and prohibit post purchase baggage price increases after the initial tickAirlines, Allegiant Air, and Southwest Airlines challenged portions of the Department of Transportation's April 2011 air passenger consumer protection rule requiring airlines and ticket agents to include all mandatory taxes and fees in published airfares, hold a reservation without payment or penalty for 24 hours after the reservation is made, and prohibit post purchase baggage price increases after the initial tickAirlines challenged portions of the Department of Transportation's April 2011 air passenger consumer protection rule requiring airlines and ticket agents to include all mandatory taxes and fees in published airfares, hold a reservation without payment or penalty for 24 hours after the reservation is made, and prohibit post purchase baggage price increases after the initial tickairlines and ticket agents to include all mandatory taxes and fees in published airfares, hold a reservation without payment or penalty for 24 hours after the reservation is made, and prohibit post purchase baggage price increases after the initial ticket sale.

DOT also sought to expand consumer protections for airline passengers.

New consumer protections for airline passengers established by the U.S. Department of Transportation go into effect today, and will make flying more convenient and hassle - free for air travelers nationwide.

Qantas violated a provision of the DOT's airline consumer protection rule requiring that if passengers on a delayed flight have the opportunity to leave the aircraft, the carrier must inform them that they can deplane.

The rulemaking finalized today builds on passenger protections issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation in December 2009, which prohibited U.S. airlines operating domestic flights from permitting an aircraft to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours, with exceptions for safety, security and air traffic control related - reasons.

Bruce Cran of the Consumers» Association of Canada said people should be wary when booking with new startups that operate under a new business models because they can be exempt from having to provide protections on baggage and cancelled flights afforded to passengers who directly book with established airlines.

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The report examined current consumer protections and recourse options available to airline passengers in Canada and proposed new models which will strengthen consumer protection in the airline industry moving forward.

Ottawa) The Public Interest Advocacy Centre, a member of the travel industry and consumer coalition the Travel Protection Initiative (TPI) that pushed for all - in price advertising for airline prices in the previous decade, expressed its satisfaction that Transport Canada will finally move ahead to implement the legislation that mandates airline regulations to provide a ticket price to passengers inclusive of all extra charges.