March 2016 Air Travel Consumer Report

March 2016 Air Travel Consumer Report

Delta Airlines Redacted Animal Incident Report for January 2016

Delta Airlines Redacted Animal Incident Report for January 2016

2015 Annual and December U.S. Airline Traffic Data

2015 Annual and December U.S. Airline Traffic Data

ACCESS Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee on Accessible Air Transportation (ACCESS Advisory Committee) was established to negotiate and develop a proposed rule concerning accommodations for air travelers with disabilities addressing in-flight communications, accessible lavatory on new single-aisle aircraft...

Porter Airlines, Inc. Order 2016-3-8

Porter Airlines, Inc.  Order 2016-3-8

Porter Escapes, Inc. Order 2016-3-7

Porter Escapes, Inc. Order 2016-3-7

Final Rule: Use of Electronic Cigarettes on Aircraft

The Department of Transportation is issuing a final rule to extend the smoking ban in 14 CFR Part 252 to include all charter (i.e., nonscheduled) flights where a flight attendant is a required crewmember. The revised Part 252 would comport with 49 U.S.C. § 41706, which was revised in 2012, to...

U.S. Department of Transportation Explicitly Bans the Use of Electronic Cigarettes on Commercial Flights

WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced a final rule that explicitly bans the use of electronic cigarettes on commercial flights.  The final rule applies to all scheduled flights of U.S. and foreign carriers involving...

2015 Airline Consumer Complaints Up From Previous Year

WASHINGTON – Airline consumer complaints filed with DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division during 2015 were up 29.8 percent from 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.

For all of last year, the Department received 20...

December 2015 Passenger Airline Employment Data

December 2015 Passenger Airline Employment Data