Posted on 06/10/2023 8:22:22 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The Biden administration wants Congress to mandate airlines to pay cash compensation for delays of three hours or more when carriers are responsible, and provide new requirements for transparency over fees such as for baggage when booking tickets.
The bill released on Friday does not include those consumer proposals but does respond to a Biden administration call in February to ban family seating fees for airlines that assign seats ahead of time.
“Baggage fees are bad enough - airlines can’t treat your child like a piece of baggage,” President Joe Biden said in February.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
"I want to smell and grope them first", he added.
Absolute Government Control ? ....or some enumerated power they just pulled out of their socialist collective heinies !
Are there “family seating fees” ?
Central control of the production and distribution of goods and services.
spit
There are now..
by presidential decree.
Now the new levy is in your next reservation.
Some airlines have messed up policies like fees to guarantee seats next to each other. But it's known about and the market should be allowed to prevail rather than all this micro regulation.
"Your children are bouquets of all floral varieties and fragrances, like each of the hairs on my legs."
Drill a hole in Buyden’s head to see what’s in there. Busy redesigning our appliances.
Lol
newzjunkey wrote: “Are there “family seating fees” ?”
Not as such. The reality is with the lowest priced tickets, one may not get the ability to pick seat assignments prior to arrival at the gate which means any group travelling together may be split up depending upon seat availability. If you pay more, you can pick seats at the time of booking. Hence, the family seating fees.
As far as paying for delays of 3 hours, the airlines will simply cancel flights when they fear they may not be able to avoid a 3-hour delay.
That’s what they did when they began to get nailed for having people sit on the plane in a snowstorm for hours and hours. They were trying to get the people to where they were going but since the gov came after them for that practice they just cancelled the flight.
The article was too lazy to explain “family seating fees”.
From
https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/airline-family-seating-dashboard
A parent who purchases airline tickets for a family should receive a guarantee from the airline that it will seat the parent and child together without fees or a last-minute scramble at the gate or having to ask other passengers to give up their seat to allow the parent and child to sit together. On February 1, 2023, Secretary Buttigieg announced the Department’s plan to launch a dashboard that displays which airlines guarantee family seating. Since then, some airlines have stepped up to guarantee adjacent seats for young children traveling with an accompanying adult at no additional cost. While this represents significant progress, USDOT is not stopping here. Secretary Buttigieg recently submitted to Congress a legislative proposal to require that airlines provide fee-free family seating.
And we certainly do not need fees which risk incentivizing earlier takeoffs than are safest.
All of this “go after the airlines” stuff is, IMO, a way for them to make Pete B seem relevant and competent.
He’s on their list of possible future contenders.
>As far as paying for delays of 3 hours, the airlines will simply cancel flights when they fear they may not be able to avoid a 3-hour delay.<
This^^^^
The flight will cancel and everyone will be rebooked on the NEXT AVAILABLE FLIGHT. There must be seats available on the flight. So 180 passengers will be booked on the next available seats over the next few days because some cheapskate wanted the last minute lowest fare.
Is this a solution in search of a problem?
EC
".....by what authority ! ! ?"
I agree 100%.
Even if this bill is a great idea, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the big, bad feds the specific to make such a bill, an unconstitutional expansion of the already unconstitutionally big federal government's powers imo.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So just add this unconstitutional bill to the list of reasons for Democratic and Republican MAGA patriots to primary ALL incumbent state and federal lawmakers and executives in 2024.
Competition among the airlines not Federal regulations can alleviate some of the “family seating” issues, with some airlines doing a better job than others with accomodating requests for “family seating”, and then using that in their advertizing. If it is a big enough issue, some airlines will do better than others on this issue and make that part of that their airline is known for.
In this electronic day and age airlines can also expand their seat selection functions to accomodate requests to passengers who have already made their seat selection, asking if they would willingly trade their (seats) for a family that is trying to sit together. This sort of seat-selection function is totally doable and not rocket science for the airlines to build into their seat selection apps.
Don’t fly then. Let market forces correct itself, without any perceived help from government.
It is harder to assign seats in blocks of two, or three, or four. There are costs involved, someone has to be paid to handle the logistics.
If there’s no additional fee to cover those costs, then everyone gets to pay more in true socialist fashion.
Admittedly, I haven’t had to fly in many years. Last time I did I got the ticket early so I could select an available seat online.
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