Obviously Pocahontas was not involved in this sensible decision.
It wouldn’t have taken 24 hours before a group of people learned how to game that system.
Many years ago I was stuck at an airport for 8 hours after flight after flight was scratched with zero explanation.
The destination for everyone on this particular flight was a 6 hour drive away.
Also on this flight was a large party trying to get to a funeral.
If the airline had been upfront about whatever the heck was going on, and it wasn’t weather related as we later discovered, the folks going to the funeral could have rented some vehicles and made it to the funeral.
As it was we all were stuck there while flight after flight was scratched.
We ended up getting to our destination early in the evening.
But I guarantee you no amount of money would have recompensed those folks for what the airline did.
That experience is just another reason I haven’t set foot on an airplane in over twenty years.
By disruptions, I thought they were talking about some crazy dyke punching the guy sitting next to her for voting for Trump or somebody getting diarrhea all over the bathroom after voting for the Alfalfa and Walz ticket.
Do Amtrak, bus companies, and other passenger transportation services have similar regulations requiring them to offer cash to passengers when cancellations or delays are within a carrier’s control?
One regulation that WOULD BE appreciated by the public is a requirement that transportation employees tell the known truth to passengers about cancellations or delays at the time they occur, rather than spouting some euphemistic gibberish that is meaningless or simply not true.
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.
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.
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.