The Trump administration has formally scrapped a Biden-era proposal that would have required airlines to compensate passengers for lengthy delays caused by issues within the carrier’s control. The withdrawal was published Monday in the Federal Register, officially ending the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) advance rulemaking process initiated in December under President Joe Biden.
The proposed system would have offered tiered compensation, beginning at $200 for three-hour delays and rising to $775 for delays of nine hours or more. Though never enacted, the plan aimed to bring U.S. consumer protections closer to European Union standards, where compensation for airline-caused disruptions has been in place for nearly two decades.
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