By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 79-13 Airlines Report 13 Tarmac Delays Over Three Hours on Domestic Flights, Three Tarmac Delays Longer Than Four Hours on International Flights in July WASHINGTON – Airlines reported 13 tarmac delays of more than three hours on domestic flights and three tarmac delays of more than four hours on ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: U.S .- Mexico Agreements Will Lift Tariffs and Put Safety First
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Lufthansa Fined for Improperly Limiting Reimbursements for Delayed Baggage
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FRA Proposes Revisions to Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness Regulations. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would clarify certain requirements of the existing emergency preparedness standards for passenger trains, and address issues ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that new nonstop flights will be available to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport from four cities that, because of distance, had earlier been ineligible for nonstop service.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 25-13 News Digest DOT Raises Liability Limits for Domestic Airline Baggage. The U.S. Department of Transportation has raised the minimum dollar amount airlines can establish to compensate for lost, delayed and damaged baggage on domestic flights to $3,400 from the previous minimum of $3,300, effective ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines carried 66.6 million scheduled domestic and international passengers in June 2012, 0.2 percent more domestic passengers and 2.8 percent more international passengers than in June 2011. ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FAA Will Review Boeing 787 Design and Production
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today assessed a civil penalty of $80,000 against Alitalia, an airline based in Italy, for violating an international treaty by limiting reimbursement to passengers whose baggage was lost or delayed on Alitalia flights to and from the United States.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: For 11 days and counting, the Federal Aviation Administration has been without the authorization to go about a portion of its daily business. We owe the American people a solution to this crisis before members head home for the August recess.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – New consumer protections for airline passengers established by the U.S. Department of Transportation go into effect today, and will make flying more convenient and hassle-free for air travelers nationwide. The new consumer protections, finalized earlier this year, include requirements that ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 199-09 U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a new rule that significantly strengthens protections afforded to consumers by, among other things, establishing a hard time limit after which U.S. airlines must allow passengers to deplane from domestic flights. “Airline passengers ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Improvements Will Allow Future Amtrak Acela Service to Reach Speeds of 186 mph
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Today, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced he is appointing Kimberly Moore as the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Accountability Officer to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA). Moore will report directly to Secretary LaHood on all matters relating to the accountability, transparency and governance of MWAA staff and the MWAA Board of Directors.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. I’m pleased that Dave Barger, the CEO of Jet Blue Airways, is here – as is Randy Babbitt, our outstanding administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today proposed to grant antitrust immunity to two air carrier alliances for services between the United States and Japan, subject to the Open-Skies aviation agreement between the two countries being signed.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Announces $10 Million for Area Transit Safety Improvements
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The nation’s largest airlines recorded a rate of on-time flights in August that was an improvement over July’s mark but down from August 2010’s on-time rate, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: September 2013 Passenger Airline Employment Down 1.6 Percent from September 2012
