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• New Rules Aim to Protect Airline Passengers

Q: I've been reading news reports of the new U.S. Department of Transportation regulations protecting airline passengers. Are the rules in effect now? I think some of them are long overdue. Will the airlines try to fight some of them and will they lead to higher airfares or other unintended consequences? A: The rules go into effect 120 days after being published in the Federal Register. It's likely that the airlines won't be too happy with some of them, especially the one that requires all airfares to be advertised with all taxes included, but eventually most of these regulations will go into effect. They will indeed result in added expense to the airlines, and therefore it's likely that these costs will be passed on to consumers.

• Buffalo News
• May 23, 2011

• Advanced Imaging of Airline Passengers Constitutional, Says D.C. Circuit

The use of advanced imaging technology to screen airline passengers does not violate the Fourth Amendment, the D.C. Circuit has ruled. In 2010, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began deploying advanced imaging technology (AIT) as the primary means for screening airline passengers. The technology produces crude unclothed images of passengers for the purpose of allowing TSA screeners to detect explosives and weapons.

• Lawyers USA
• July 26, 2011

• Flyersrights.Org: Final Passage of Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights in Faa Bill a 'Major Victory'

An Array of New Rights for Passengers Will Make Skies Safer, More Efficient NAPA, Calif., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- FlyersRights.org today hailed the passage of a new, four-year FAA Reauthorization Act that contains a number of significant new protections for airline passengers. After five years of continuous effort, FlyersRights.org worked to build a nationwide coalition of individuals, groups and lawmakers to make the legislation a reality, despite stiff opposition from airline industry lobbyists.

• U.S. Newswire
• February 06, 2012

• 14 CFR 259.4 - Contingency plan for lengthy tarmac delays.

...PART 259: ENHANCED PROTECTIONS FOR AIRLINE PASSENGERS. 259.4 - Contingency plan for lengthy ...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 14: Aeronautics and Space

• Bill Needed to Protect Airline Passengers

Human flight has become routine, even though it was considered impossible for most of human history. So, there might be hope yet that airlines one day will figure out how to uniformly and routinely treat passengers with respect. To be sure, the airline business is a perilous one. Airlines can't control the weather, of course, and safety demands controlled hours for flight crews. Throw in airport congestion, mechanical problems and other variables, and it's easy to see why carriers sometimes can't meet their schedules.

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• June 08, 2010

• Passengers May Not Love Big Airline

MINNEAPOLIS - Bigger isn't necessarily better for airline customers. United and US Airways are talking about combining into what would be the second-largest U.S. carrier. Travel watchers said that although a reduction in service and competition works out for money- losing carriers, it's not usually to the benefit of airline passengers.

• Charleston Gazette
• April 09, 2010

• Court Stops Airline From Plastering Passengers Confidential Information On Internet, Flyersrights.Org Reports

NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kate Hanni, executive director of FlyersRights.org, reported today that, "Airline passengers, stranded on the tarmac by Jetblue Airways at JFK Airport on Valentines Day 2007 for up to 11 hours, had a small victory Friday January 20th. The NYS Supreme Court Appellate Division per Justice Cheryl Chambers issued a temporary restraining order preventing Jetblue from posting on the internet in e-filing or otherwise releasing the plaintiff's medical, tax returns and personal information as it had threatened to do. The court will hear the Plaintiff passenger's motion for an injunction pending decision on her appeal of a shocking decision by the trial court in Queens. Pre-trial court Judge Valerie Brathwaite- Nelson had denied any confidential...

• U.S. Newswire
• January 24, 2012

• Square Pegs, Round Hole: The Fourth Amendment and Preflight Searches of Airline Passengers in a Post-9/11 World

Sep 11, 2001 marked a day of tragedy on which thousands of people lost their lives. As a result, the dangers of hijacking became a heightened subject of concern for America. However, increased security measures lead to a hard question regarding personal privacy and the right to travel. This Comment shows that a new Fourth Amendment approach is necessary to justify warrantless preflight searches of passengers boarding airliners because the prevailing approach is based on the misapplication of a set of exceptions to the Warrant Clause in the Fourth Amendment. This Comment shows that the history culminating in the Fourth Amendment demonstrates the importance of judicial review of searches by law enforcement officials in the Amendment. Therefore, the Supreme Court should create a sui generi...

• Brigham Young University Law Review
• Vol. 2006 Nbr. 6, November 2006

• Plain Talk About Planes ; Airline Passengers Need a Bill of Rights

LAST Friday, once again, airline passengers twiddled their thumbs for hours as they waited for their flights to take off. Weather, the airlines explained.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• September 15, 2009

• Airline Passengers Have Rights

Risks are inherent in air travel, which consists of strapping yourself into a tube and hurtling through the air at 500 miles an hour. But there is no reason that the risks should include giving up fundamental consumer rights. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced some new rules recently that reinforce those fundamental rights by making violations of them far more expensive for airlines

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• May 13, 2011