Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections III (Us Department of Transportation Regulation) (Dot) (2018 Edition)

Download or read book Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections III (Us Department of Transportation Regulation) (Dot) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections III (US Department of Transportation Regulation) (DOT) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections III (US Department of Transportation Regulation) (DOT) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Department of Transportation is issuing a third "Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections" final rule to enhance protections for air travelers and to improve the air travel environment as follows: Expanding the pool of reporting carriers for service quality data; requiring reporting carriers to include service quality data for their domestic scheduled flights operated by their code-share partners; enhancing the Department's code-share disclosure regulation to codify the statutory requirement that carriers and ticket agents must disclose any code-share arrangements on their Web sites on the first display presented in response to a search of a requested itinerary for each itinerary involving a code-share operation; and prohibiting undisclosed biasing based on carrier identity by carriers and ticket agents in any electronic displays of the fare, schedule or availability information of multiple carriers. The amendments to the reporting requirements in this rule will ensure that the Department obtains and provides to the public expanded and enhanced service quality data from the airlines. The provision to strengthen the Department's code-share disclosure rule will also enhance air travel consumer protection. Additionally, this final rule corrects certain drafting errors and makes minor changes to the Department's second Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections rule to better reflect the Department's intent. Other topics covered by the proposed rule that are not addressed by this final rule will be addressed in two separate rulemakings. Specifically, the Department will be issuing a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) to seek additional information on the disclosure of fees for basic ancillary services to consumers at all points of sale. The remaining topics discussed in the 2014 notice of proposed rulemaking (e.g., customer service commitments by large ticket agents, prohibition on post-purchase price increases for ancillary services) will be addressed in another final rule that the Department plans to issue at a later date. This book contains: - The complete text of the Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections III (US Department of Transportation Regulation) (DOT) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section