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Air travelers who experience disability-related air travel service problems may call the hotline at 1-800-778-4838* (voice) to obtain assistance.
The hotline will provide general information to consumers about the rights of air travelers with disabilities, respond to...
The Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA, 49 U.S.C. 41705) prohibits discrimination by U.S. and foreign air carriers on the basis of physical or mental disability. The Department of Transportation, in interpreting and implementing the ACAA, has issued a rule (14 CFR Part 382) setting forth the...
The Future of Aviation Advisory Committee (FAAC) Final Report, dated April 2010, provided a series of recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation to address the aviation industry’s major challenges. In recommendation 14, the FAAC expressed concern that: “Jet fuel price and supply...
The purpose of the First Semi-Annual Aviation Workforce Management Conference is to develop collaborative and innovative actions in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education and to bridge the gap of information.
This paper updates and confirms the FAA’s position that requiring the use of child restraint systems (CRS) in FAR Part 121 operations would result in a significant net increase in total transportation fatalities. This update concludes that requiring the use of CRS would increase total...
DISTRUBUTED AT THE FAAC AVIATION WORKFORCE-MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012
In 2010, the Honorable Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation, chartered the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee (FAAC) to ensure the competiveness of the U.S. aviation industry. In...
In December of 2010, the FAAC completed several months of deliberation and issued 23 consensus recommendations on the future of U.S. aviation. The recommendations focused on safety, the environment, competition, finance and labor relations. Many of the FAAC’s recommendations in these...
Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners, Canada and Mexico, was 4.6 percent higher in July 2012 than in July 2011, totaling $75.7 billion, unadjusted for inflation (Table 1 and Figure 1), according to the Bureau of...
U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 390,032 workers in July 2012, 0.8 percent more than in July 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. Scheduled passenger airline categories include network, low-cost, regional and other...
The largest scheduled passenger airlines reported a 6.0 percent profit margin in the second quarter of 2012, up from 5.3 percent in the second quarter of 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today in a release of preliminary data