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This consent order concerns violations by Concesionaria Vuela Compañía de Aviación, S.A.P.I. de C.V. d/b/a Volaris (Volaris) of 14 CFR Part 259 and 49 U.S.C. § 41712. Specifically, Volaris failed to adhere to the assurances in its contingency plan for lengthy tarmac delays regarding the...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Concesionaria Vuela Compañía de Aviación (Volaris) $70,000 for violating a federal statute and the Department’s rule prohibiting long tarmac delays. The airline was also ordered to cease and desist from future similar...
An innovative project at the North Carolina A&T State University (NC A&T), sponsored by the Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility (CATM), a Tier 1 UTC, is seeking to reduce the time needed for emergency response vehicles (ERVs) to respond to a sequence of...
Twenty U.S. small businesses in 14 states will receive more than $3 million to research and develop innovative solutions to our nation’s transportation challenges.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced this month that twenty (20) U...
Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation is acting on a request from Hawaiian Airlines for exemption from the CARES Act airline service obligations announced in Order 2020-4-2. This is the third request of Hawaiian Airlines to renew its exemption to suspend service temporarily to Pago...
5 U.S.C. § 3111 (c)(1):
(c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any student who provides voluntary service under subsection (b) of this section shall not be considered a Federal employee for any purpose other than for purposes of section 7905 (relating to commuting by means other...