Posted on 09/05/2025 4:09:04 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Edited on 09/05/2025 7:58:55 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The Department of Transportation is dropping a proposed rule that would have required airlines to offer cash to passengers whose flights were disrupted.
The rule, which never went into effect, would have required carriers to provide compensation "to mitigate passenger inconveniences" for cancellations or delays that were within a carrier's control.
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British Airways was my favorite airline when I flew.
No US airline could touch them.
Not all airlines have disruptions. Some are much better than others. Some are absolutely horrible with disruptions. Let the market sort it out. If you want a cheap ticket and are willing to risk massive disruptions, take those airlines.
As a frequent traveler, I’m not getting huge discounts from one line to another. I would like fair compensation from whichever line screws up my travel plans.
I’d rather see them allocate funds to fix the problems buttihead ignored for 4 years than throw away $$.
Travelers be damned. Half of them supported the prior status quo anyway.
Exactly. The market will address it. The bad airlines eventually go away.
As far as customer service and disruption are concerned, the only practical airline regulation I can see is that an airline should be forbidden by law from overbooking a flight. Let them resell seats to standby passengers in the event of last-minute changes or cancellations, but there’s no way in hell a flight with 250 seats should ever have more than 250 tickets sold.
All this would do is have airlines make everyone sign a release of liability form in exchange to enter a temporary voluntary contract to use their services. The lawyers have this all filed.
Any financial burden would have been passed on to the customer, as you must know. CEO's don't take wage cuts.
We must protect corporations from the customers they screw over.
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