by Charlie Leocha | May 23, 2013
Many of us have heard about privacy issues with Websites and in general with the Internet. We have been warned about identity theft and heard about government and department store breaches that revealed hundreds of thousands of personal records to hackers. We...
by Charlie Leocha | May 16, 2013
This is a topic that doesn’t come up very often. In fact, since the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) doesn’t have jurisdiction over airline reservation systems and travel agencies, it has not been part of the overall Internet privacy discussions. Your...
by Charlie Leocha | Apr 5, 2013
Last week, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought forward by a group of airlines challenging new Department of Transportation (DOT) rules requiring them to use the effective full price of airfares including all mandatory taxes, fees and surcharges. In other...
by Charlie Leocha | Jan 31, 2013
NPRM — Notice of Proposed Rulemaking — is the most important part of American governance that the public has never heard of. In school we all have learned how bills are passed, how the House and Senate must both pass the bill and then the President must sign it before...
by Charlie Leocha | Jan 1, 2013
From a passenger’s point of view, 2012 was on of the most momentous since deregulation. Airline consumers reached more milestones and the Department of Transportation (DOT) put into effect more passenger protections than in the history of the department. Here...
by Charlie Leocha | Oct 5, 2012
Opening statement of Charlie Leocha, consumer representative to the Advisory Consumer for Aviation Consumer Protections. DOT, Washington, DC, October 2, 2012 As we start this, the third meeting of the Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protections, I am...
