In a regulatory filing that should anger just about any consumer, airline lobbyists are begging the Trump administration to eliminate the limited number of protections that us consumers in the United States have. Frommers has an excellent analysis of this, and it’s kind of wild (thanks to TravelinWilly for flagging this).
Airlines, being the charitable businesses that they are, were more than willing to help with this agenda. Airlines for America (A4A), which is the airline lobbying group representing Alaska, American, Delta, Southwest, and United, submitted a 93-page document outlining all kinds of regulations that can and should be cut.
A4A is calling on the “re-deregulation” of airlines in order to “unleash American prosperity and the new ‘golden age’ of air travel in America.” So, how are we going to unleash the golden age of air travel? Well, by basically giving consumers no rights. The cuts that A4A wants are far-reaching.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
