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Recent Posts
- How the FAA will integrate rockets, drones, and flying cars into our sky
- When service plans are part of the contracts of carriage, that is real change.
- How to not waste your vacation time
- Dressing up won’t bring civility in air travel. Respect for passengers may.
- Travelers United needs support now. Your rights are under airline attack
Accomplishments
These accomplishments have been achieved by working closely with our members, national media, the travel industry, the Department of Transportation (DOT), Congress and many other agencies.
- – Removal of restaurant fees from DC area eateries — this is an ongoing project
- – Creation of DOT Dashboard to outline consumer rights after cancellation of a flight
- – Bi-partisan bill to eliminate hotel resort fees introduced into House of Representatives
- – Creation of the Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protections
- – Advertised airfares now include airfare plus, mandatory taxes and fees
- – Lost/damaged/delayed luggage compensation limit increased to $3,800
- – Passengers have 24 hours to change or cancel their nonrefundable tickets without penalty
- – Once an airfare is purchased, that airfare and ancillary fees cannot be increased
- – Families flying together act passed by Congress that requires family members 13 years of age and younger to sit with other family members at no additional cost.