The airlines seem to be intent on keeping travelers from being able to compare the full cost of travel. Somehow they feel that not allowing consumers to compare costs to fly, including ancillary fees, is the right way to go. They are flouting the new DOT disclosure rules on their websites and airlines are fighting the coming rules in court as well.
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) has extended the effective dates of key portions of the most recent rulemaking for an extra five months.
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Congress is in the final throes of negotiating the FAA Reauthorization Bill. Part of the proposed law contains several controversial consumer provisions. One of the most debated concerns is whether to make the current Department of Transportation (DOT) regulation that limits an airplane’s time on the runway to a maximum of three-hours a law that [...]
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So the federal government weighed in on airline fees earlier this week, and will soon require optional fees like baggage, meals and in-flight Wi-Fi, to be “prominently” disclosed on a carrier’s website. But that may not be enough. The Transportation Department has promised a second administrative rulemaking later this year to deal with the question [...]
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fter months of comments and deliberation, the Transportation Department this morning released its final consumer protection rules for airline passengers.
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed rulemaking (NPRM) has stirred up plenty of controversy. Any time an agency of the government takes up the mantel of consumer protection, business is going to cringe. Ultimately, we know what’s good for customers is normally good for business. But these new proposed regulations are crossing a new line — international borders.
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This is question everyone seems to ask themselves every so often. It borders on those existential questions like, “Who am I?” or “Why and I here?” Right now, when it comes to changing the way that airline tickets are sold here in the United States, you can make a difference. Sign our petition to the Secretary of Transportation and let him know you would like to know airline fees up front so you can buy your airfare intelligently.
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Ban peanuts? Really? That’s the first reaction I get when I mention the final, and perhaps the most ridiculed, of the Transportation Department’s proposed new rules. Seriously — why would the government do away with peanuts on a plane?
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With the airlines cutting capacity and working like mad to jam more people onto flights, the inevitable has been happening more and more — 220,000 passengers were bumped from their flights during the first quarter of 2010.
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