No airline currently offers cash compensation for delays.
The question of who should pay for airfare when things go awry has been lingering in the air for a while now. The obvious answer is the airlines, but the major carriers have been resistant, preferring instead to make passengers pay for all their own accommodations when flights get delayed or canceled. But that way of doing things may be coming to an end.
“This rule would, for the first time in US history, propose to require airlines to compensate passengers and cover expenses such as meals, hotels, and rebooking in cases where the airline has caused a cancellation or significant delay,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement., the overall cancellation rate in 2022 was 2.69 percent, which works out to 181,286 canceled flights. There were 1,376,798 arrival delays in 2022, a rate of 20.46 percent of flights.
Cash compensation when cancellation or delay results in passenger waiting three hours or more from the scheduled departure time; As to the question of who gets what, how much, and when, a lot will come down to how the department defines “controllable cancellation and delay.” The definition will be in the official rulemaking when it comes out eventually, but the overall purpose is to force the airlines to improve their on-time performance figures.
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