{"id":5191,"date":"2010-06-03T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/obama-administration-pushes-for-new-airline-passenger-protection-rules\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T11:53:00","slug":"obama-administration-pushes-for-new-airline-passenger-protection-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/obama-administration-pushes-for-new-airline-passenger-protection-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration Pushes for New Airline Passenger Protection Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>U.S. proposes improved passenger protection rules<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Obama administration is pushing for new stricter consumer laws that would help protect passengers. Under the proposal, airline passengers would receive as much as $1,300, up from the current $800, in the event that they were bumped from a flight and have 24 hours to cancel a reservation without suffering a penalty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn addition, the new rules would make it mandatory for airlines to clearly disclose the following information to customers:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baggage fee policy \n\t<\/li>\n<li>Refunds and expense reimbursement for lost or late bags.<\/li>\n<li>Note when fees go up. \n\t<\/li>\n<li>Inform passengers if they need to pay a check bag fee with that particular flight.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAirlines would also have to do away with price increases after a ticket is purchased as well as provide customers with flight-status changes in a timely fashion.The new rules are expected to go into effect this fall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/03\/business\/03air.html?src=mv\" target=\"_blank\"> New York Times <\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; U.S. proposes improved passenger protection rules &nbsp; The Obama administration is pushing for new stricter consumer laws that would help protect passengers. Under the proposal, airline passengers would receive as much as $1,300, up from the current $800, in the event that they were bumped from a flight and have 24 hours to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}