Title: To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to require air carriers to disclose to consumers the actual wheels-off and wheels-on times for certain domestic passenger flight segments, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to modify federal consumer disclosure regulations to ensure that a reporting carrier: (1) discloses, upon the reasonable request of a consumer during the course of a reservation or ticketing discussion, the projected period between the actual wheels-off and wheels-on times for a reportable flight; and (2) displays on its public website information on such times for the most recent calendar month for a reportable flight.
A "reporting carrier" is an air carrier that accounts for at least 1% of domestic scheduled-passenger revenues in the most recently reported 12-month period.
A "reportable flight" is a nonstop flight to or from any airport within the 48 states that accounts for 1% of domestic scheduled-passenger enplanements in the previous calendar year.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2928 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2928

   To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to 
require air carriers to disclose to consumers the actual wheels-off and 
wheels-on times for certain domestic passenger flight segments, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2017

 Mr. Payne (for himself and Mr. Sires) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to 
require air carriers to disclose to consumers the actual wheels-off and 
wheels-on times for certain domestic passenger flight segments, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONSUMER INFORMATION ON ACTUAL FLIGHT TIMES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Transportation shall modify 
regulations contained in section 234.11 of title 14, Code of Federal 
Regulations, to ensure that--
            (1) a reporting carrier (including its contractors), during 
        the course of a reservation or ticketing discussion or other 
        inquiry, discloses to a consumer upon reasonable request the 
        projected period between the actual wheels-off and wheels-on 
        times for a reportable flight; and
            (2) a reporting carrier displays, on the public internet 
        website of the carrier, information on the actual wheels-off 
        and wheels-on times during the most recent calendar month for a 
        reportable flight.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``reporting carrier'' 
and ``reportable flight'' have the meanings given those terms in 
section 234.2 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on 
the date of enactment of this Act).
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