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U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx Outlines Transportation Vision Focused on Overcoming Infrastructure Deficit
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx today outlined his top...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Final Rule to Streamline Environmental Reviews for Transit, Highway Projects
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a final rule this week that will significantly cut red tape, while achieving better environmental outcomes, for certain transit and...
News Digest DOT 09-14
DOT Report Finds Rule Prohibiting Tarmac Delays Over Three Hours Has Virtually Eliminated Long Tarmac Delays, Has Little Effect on Cancellations. The U.S. Department of...
U.S. Department of Transportation Fines Qantas for Not Informing Passengers of Opportunity to Leave Delayed Aircraft
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced that Qantas Airways, an airline based in Australia, violated federal rules last March by not informing passengers on a...
Analysis of Impact of Tarmac Delay Rule
This is a document about the Independent Review and Analysis of the Impact of the Three-Hour Tarmac Delay Rule by Econometrica, Inc.
November Airline Consumer Complaints Down From Previous Year, October
WASHINGTON – Airline consumer complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division during November were down 23.6 percent from November 2012...
DOT Fines Ticket Agent Vayama for Violating Price Advertising Rule
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined ticket agent Airtrade International, doing business as Vayama, $80,000 for violating DOT’s unfair and deceptive trade practices...