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[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago

The complete rules are here: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/refundsfinalruleapril2024

The meat of it is the table on pages 9-14 and mostly comprehensible.

Worth noting:

  • A change to your flight number is always a "cancellation" and you may choose to accept a refund
    • The expectation is most people would not, for the same reason most don't cancel their refundable tickets - they want to go on the flight
  • There are no carve outs for weather, etc.
    • I am really glad to see this because airlines could claim "weather" for connecting flights, so any weather anywhere meant they could delay your flight
[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the weather note is huge. Historically, airlines would just cite “weather” because there was a single cloud in the sky halfway to the destination. Because if a cancellation was weather related, they didn’t have to pay out.

I basically see this as the government going “look, we tried to be nice and give you some leeway. But you abused that by citing weather for every single cancellation. So now you’re on a tight leash and can’t even cite it when it’s valid.”

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Oh man this is that high fucking quality type of discussion I’m here for, direct link, exact quote , clearly separated but very based opinion

Have an upvote king

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Yes but other side of that coin:

This might cause airlines to push pilots to fly anyway when the weather is outright dangerous to fly. I'm waiting for the first news article about an airplane that took off straight into a thunderstorm, got caught in a down draft and crashed, killing everyone.

Don't underestimate the inventive ways companies can cheat to save money

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