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In response to
"haven’t they gotten better under biden (pete!), or is it just more pressure on airlines to follow what’s already in place that’s brought some results?"
by
i.b!
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Very minimally, but there's limited they can do without additional laws in the space.
Posted by
ty97
Dec 20 '22, 10:51
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I'm not knocking them, they've done what they can, they just have pretty tied hands.
But even the one law that did manage to get passed several years ago is only so much of an passenger rights rule: The tarmac rule says they can't hold you on the plane for more then three hours on the tarmac. If it happens? Then the airline gets fined....and the government gets the money. A real right would have cash payment to customers when they are subjected to that.
The EU rules pay out (CASH, not airline credit or miles) if your arrival is delayed by X amount of time (some extreme circumstances exceptions are allowed, but not how the US can blame everything on weather). EU airlines will rebook you on other airlines all the time to get you where you need to go (as opposed to the US where you get to wait a day or two or three for the next seat on the airline you booked). It's very different
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