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.

Bill: 115-hr-2928
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2017-06-15
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Aviation and airports

Consumer affairs

Department of Transportation
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-06-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>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. </p> <p>A &quot;reporting carrier&quot; is an air carrier that accounts for at least 1% of domestic scheduled-passenger revenues in the most recently reported 12-month period.</p> <p>A &quot;reportable flight&quot; 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.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2928 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 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.

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).