President Donald Trump’s administration said on Friday it was formally withdrawing a plan by his predecessor (Biden) to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when U.S. flight disruptions are caused by carriers.
Last month, a group of 18 Democratic senators urged the Trump administration not to drop the compensation plan.
Airlines in the U.S. must refund passengers for canceled flights, but are not required to compensate customers for delays. The European Union, Canada, Brazil and Britain all have airline delay compensation rules. No large U.S. airline currently guarantees cash compensation for significant flight disruption.
USDOT also announced in September it was considering rescinding Biden regulations requiring airlines and ticket agents to disclose service fees alongside airfares.
Yet again I have to mention my thing about biden being the best president of my lifetime. So many nice littel quality of life things done and now reversed. ugh.
Early on, i said Biden could go down as on of the greats. He made a slew of excellent calls in the beginning. I’ll controversially claim Afghanistan withdrawal as one those good calls, in the circumstances, as well. Its a shame he couldn’t maintain that form.
To be fair, credit goes to his team. Biden had no clue what was going on.
this is actually a big point of presidents. Reagan actually picked some very good folks initially but dropped ones who disagreed with him. I don’t like reagan but if he had listened to his initial picks he might have been decent. You basically want someone who can put together a great team. This is also what makes trumps presidency so very bad.
Have a feeling you’re right.
ugh