Written by David Shepardeson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The main US Airlines has asked the US Department of Transport to give up a review launched by the Biden administration on whether the transport companies should be required to pay the travelers compensation due to flight disturbances.
Airlines urged America, a commercial group representing US Airways, Air Lines, United Airlines, and others, the Trump administration to end the review launched in December to receive comments on whether the airlines in the United States should provide money To compensate for the carrier- it caused disturbances as required to be done in the European Union and Canada.
“The airlines do not need more incentives to provide high -quality service,” the group wrote, on the pretext that Usdot lacks legal authority and that the condition will significantly enhance the costs of airlines and ticket prices.
The International Air Transport Association, which represents airlines all over the world, criticized the idea that the required compensation programs “have become wealth transfer tools that cost airlines billions of dollars without any meaningful reduction in aviation breakdown.”
“The idea” may encourage transportation companies to re -evaluate when the flights that should have been delayed or canceled when there were potential safety concerns are followed. “
Usdot in December sought to comment on whether airlines should be required to pay $ 200 to $ 300 for local delay from at least three hours, $ 375 to $ 525 to delay for six hours, and 750 dollars -775 dollars For nine hours.
Then the Minister of Transport, Beit Betigij, said in December that the rules of compensation for delay “will change the economic incentive in a way that motivates airline to do more.”
In May 2023, President Joe Biden said that his administration would write within the most famous rules that require airlines to compensate passengers for broken flights.
Airlines must recover passengers for canceled flights, but it is not required to compensate customers for delay.
The main transport companies have committed to paying the price of meals and residences in the hotel and other expenses when they caused major flying disturbances.
Last month, an American court prevented the Biden 2024 administration base that requires prior disclosure of airline service fees, saying that Usdot did not comply with procedural rules.
(Participated in the reports of David Shepardeson; Al -Tahrir by Bill Berkerut)
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