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Airlines want to roll back these consumer protections – what passengers can do

“Europe and the UK have generally more friendly passenger rights laws that ... including Spirit Airlines, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, spoke out against the proposal, ... Read More

Your airline rights are shrinking fast. How to protect yourself.

As airlines quietly dismantle decades of consumer protections, passengers risk losing automatic refunds, fee transparency, and disability safeguards. Read More

Airlines want to kill refunds, fee rules, and family seating rights

The U.S. airline industry is lobbying to roll back key consumer protection regulations. Proposed changes include eliminating automatic refunds and rules for transparent pricing. Imagine this: Your ... Read More

Airlines Lobby To Roll Back Consumer Protection Regulations

Airlines for America, the trade group representing the nation’s largest carriers, has submitted a 93-page petition to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) requesting the rollback of several key ... Read More

The U.S. promised fliers better passenger rights. What happened?

The Transportation Department has rescinded a proposal to expand compensation for flight cancellations and significant delays. Read More

Trump administration plans to gut airline passenger protections

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to scale back or eliminate some airline passenger protection rules that were enacted or proposed under the Biden administration and earlier, siding ... Read More

U.S. finalizes new rules sought by airlines on consumer protections

The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday said it would add new procedural hurdles before the government could bar most additional unfair or deceptive practices by airlines, in a move sought by the ... Read More

Your airline rights are shrinking fast. How to protect yourself.

You can almost feel it when you fly these days. It's that sense that you're a second-class citizen with limited rights – or none at all. It happened to Janice Lintz when she was traveling from ... Read More

Airlines want to kill refunds, fee rules, and family seating rights

Imagine this: Your flight's been delayed over and over. But when you ask a lone worker staffing the customer service counter for help, he just shrugs. There's no meal voucher, no compensation – not ... Read More