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Back last August Delta Air Lines and US Airways proposed trading their slots at New York LaGuardia and Washington Reagan like baseball cards. Delta wanted more NY slots and US Airways wanted more DC gates. Both were already powerhouses at the airports where they wanted more slots.
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As our government studies the uneven safety standards and differences in pilot training programs between mainline and regional airlines, both American and United airlines announced new code-shared flights that confuse and mislead the flying public. The FAA must say enough! There needs to be a freeze on additional regional airline contracts until the FAA can bring a unified safety structure into place.
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) missive that mandated hefty fines for airlines who strand passengers on the tarmac for more than three hours had some other rules hidden in other paragraphs that may not have very far-reaching effects.
One of them is a fine for airlines who operate flights that are “chronically late.” The definition of [...]
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In a bureaucratic battle between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Justice, members of the Senate Judiciary committee have raised their voices once again. They are warning about the pending antitrust immunity for the American Airlines/British Airways/Iberia OneWorld Alliance.
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) seems to have finally awakened to the reality that if airlines don’t feel any pain, they aren’t motivated to change. After years of cozy inspector/inspected relationships, the federal government department responsible for airline safety seems to mean business. Big fines are flying and the airlines are being called out.
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In a TravelMole commentary, Peter Greenberg slams the airline practice of quoting deceptively low prices and marking them with an asterisk. Worse, airlines have asked regulators for even more leeway for more consumer confusion.
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