Your consumer rights are disappearing. Here’s how to protect yourself now.
Don’t look now, but your consumer rights are vanishing.
REGULATION
As airlines try to monetize seat assignments, are passengers with disabilities being left behind?
Flying with a disability is never easy, but in the past, airlines have lightened the burden a little by offering passengers such as Scott Nold advance seat assignments.
EU’s new rental car rules could be signpost for US
If you rent a car in Europe this summer, you might notice a few changes. Pay attention to them. They could be coming to America soon.
Transportation department taps brakes on proposed regulation requiring disclosure of airline fees
The U.S. Transportation Department surprised the travel world last month by suspending the creation of an important new consumer-protection regulation.
Should airlines be re-regulated?
The days of a freewheeling, lightly regulated airline industry, in which it charge whatever fees and fares it pleases, may be nearing an end.
Will a new law force cruise lines to better report onboard crime?
The remarkable thing about the proposed Cruise Passenger Protection Act is that on its face, it looks entirely unremarkable. The law would require cruise lines to publicly report all alleged crimes on a ship and to disclose their passenger contracts in plain English.
Hartford tarmac stranding doesn’t justify new laws
The Halloween weekend stranding of more than 1,000 airline passengers at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Conn., brought the tarmac delay activists out in full force again, pushing for new laws that they claim would prevent lengthy ground delays.