“The Biden-Harris Administration today announced that the US Department of Transportation has issued a final rule that requires airlines to promptly provide passengers with automatic cash refunds when owed. The new rule makes it easy for passengers to obtain refunds when airlines cancel or significantly change their flights, significantly delay their checked bags, or fail to provide the extra services they purchased. ‘Passengers deserve to get their money back when an airline owes them – without headaches or haggling,’ said US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. ‘Our new rule sets a new standard to require airlines to promptly provide cash refunds to their passengers.'”
“The final rule creates certainty for consumers by defining the specific circumstances in which airlines must provide refunds. Prior to this rule, airlines were permitted to set their own standards for what kind of flight changes warranted a refund. As a result, refund policies differed from airline to airline, which made it difficult for passengers to know or assert their refund rights. DOT also received complaints of some airlines revising and applying less consumer-friendly refund policies during spikes in flight cancellations and changes,” says a statement from the US Department of Transportation announcing more torment and suffering for greedy cocksucker airline executives.