Tuesday's House committee hearing highlighted issues ranging from FAA technology — which broke down last month, snarling U.S. air travel for a day — to the...
DOT investigating if ‘unrealistic scheduling’ at Southwest Airlines led to meltdown
Quickly put passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed on another flight — even if that means paying to put them on a competing airline. Let parents and minor children sit together without paying additional seat-assignment fees; the groups say a 2016 directive to the Transportation Department has been held up.It’s not clear that anything Congress might do would have prevented close calls between planes last month at New York’s JFK Airport,
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