News Archive
December 2012 Significant Rulemaking Report
This report provides a summary and the status for all significant rulemakings that DOT currently has pending or has issued recently. We update the Report at the beginning of each month. The...
WRITTEN STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE RAY LAHOOD SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE RAY LAHOOD, SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION,
ON HIGH SPEED RAIL
BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Fern F. Kaufman
Director, Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution
Fern F. Kaufman is the Director of the DOT Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, where she is responsible for training and...
Honoring tickets of insolvent airlines, add'l information
The Department issued a notice on August 8, 2002, providing guidance for airlines and the traveling public regarding the obligation of airlines under section 145 of the Aviation and Transportation...
Honoring tickets of insolvent airlines
The purpose of this notice is to clarify the obligation of airlines under section 145 of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (“Act”) to provide transportation to passengers of airlines...
Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections: Baggage and other consumer issue, December 2009 rule
The Department of Transportation is issuing a final rule to enhance airline passenger protections in the following ways: by requiring air carriers to adopt contingency plans for lengthy tarmac...
April 2011 Powerpoint presentation summarizing baggage provisions
No carrier may impose any contract of carriage provision containing a choice-of-forum clause that attempts to preclude a passenger or a purchaser from bringing a claim against a carrier in any...
Response to petition to delay the effective date of 14 CFR 399.85(c) and 399.87
By this order, we are denying the petition of the Air Transport Association (now Airlines for America), the International Air Transport Association, the Regional Airline Association, the Air...