Passengers sporting protecting masks are seen aboard earlier than a JetBlue flight to London at JFK Worldwide Airport within the Queens borough of New York Metropolis, August 11, 2021.
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The Biden administration is asking Congress to go laws that might ban airways from charging charges for households who’re touring with youngsters below the age of 14 to take a seat collectively, its newest try to crack down on add-on expenses for customers, the Transportation Division stated Monday.
“Upon assessment of the airways’ seating insurance policies, DOT stays involved that airways’ insurance policies don’t assure adjoining seats for younger youngsters touring with a member of the family and that airways don’t assure the adjoining seating at no extra price,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote in a letter to Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
President Joe Biden has vowed to stamp out so-called “junk fees” throughout industries together with motels, airlines and banks.
Earlier this month, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines and Frontier Airlines stated they would come with family-seating ensures in customer support plans, violations of which might end in DOT fines. United Airlines final month stated it could give households touring with youngsters access to seats that usually price further on the time of reserving.
The Biden administration’s draft laws requires refunds to passengers who can not get adjoining seats for youngsters of their social gathering.
The Transportation Division is engaged on a rule to ensure household seating however stated as a result of the “rulemaking course of might be prolonged, the President and DOT are calling on Congress to do that instantly.”
