Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/06/21/2010-15000/posting-of-flight-delay-data-on-web-sites
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Federal Register | Posting of Flight Delay Data on Web Sites
Dates: This final rule is effective July 21, 2010, unless an adverse comment or notice to file an adverse comment is received by July 6, 2010. OST will publish in the Federal Register a timely document confirming the effective date of this final rule.
Effective Date: 07/21/2010
Comments Close: 07/06/2010
75 FR 34925
-34927 (3 pages)
2105-AE02
Document Number: 2010-15000
Shorter URL: https://federalregister.gov/a/2010-15000 Action
This direct final rule amends the time period for uploading flight performance information to an air carrier's Web site from anytime between the 20th and 23rd day of the month to the fourth Saturday of the month. The intended effect of this rule is to provide regulatory relief to industry by allowing carriers to follow standard industry practice of updating flight information such as schedule changes on Saturday. This action is necessary to address difficulties concerning implementation and compliance with the requirement to post flight delay data on carriers' Web sites. Moreover, this change would further the Department's goal of having all carriers upload flight information at the same time, thus ensuring passengers are comparing flight performance data from the same time period. The amendment contained in this rule is a minor substantive change, in the public interest, and unlikely to result in adverse comment.
Posting of Flight Delay Data on Websites 3 actions from June 21st, 2010 to July 22nd, 2010
Direct Final Rule; Request for Comments
Direct Final Rule; Confirmation of Effective Date
This final rule is effective July 21, 2010, unless an adverse comment or notice to file an adverse comment is received by July 6, 2010. OST will publish in the Federal Register a timely document confirming the effective date of this final rule.
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Blane A. Workie, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, DC 20590, 202-366-9342 (phone), 202-366-7152 (fax), blane.workie@dot.gov (e-mail).
The Department of Transportation requires that certificated air carriers that account for at least 1 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenues (reporting carriers) provide certain flight delay data on their Web sites. Under that provision, a reporting carrier must display on its Web site between the 20th and 23rd day of the month the prior month's flight delay information for each flight it operates and for each flight its U.S. code-share partners operate for which schedule information is available. More specifically, the provision requires that reporting carriers provide on their Web sites the following on-time performance information: (1) The percentage of arrivals that were on time—i.e., within 15 minutes of scheduled arrival time; (2) the percentage of arrivals that were more than 30 minutes late (including special highlighting if the flight was more than 30 minutes late more than 50 percent of the time); and (3) the percentage of flight cancellations if 5 percent or more of the flight's operations were canceled in the month covered. The first time carriers must load the flight delay information onto their Web sites is between July 20 and 23, 2010, for June data.
On May 7, 2010, the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the Regional Airline Association (RAA) and the Air Carrier Association of America (ACAA) submitted a joint petition to the Department requesting a change of the date to upload flight data from the 20th to the 23rd of the month, which sometimes does not fall on a Saturday, to a set Saturday, as this would allow carriers to follow standard industry practice of updating flight information such as schedule changes on Saturdays. In addition, the carrier associations requested that the specific date for uploading flight performance information on Web sites be the fourth Saturday of the month to avoid a conflict with the requirement to file other flight performance information with the Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) on the 15th day of the month, which at times falls on the third Saturday of the month. The carrier associations explain that carriers use the same technical personnel and resources for both activities and having the carriers file required BTS data and upload flight performance information to a carrier's Web site on the same day would increase their cost burdens. ATA, RAA, and ACAA are also concerned that if DOT were to require that Web sites be updated on the third Saturday of the month there would be certain months where the reporting carriers would be required to upload information on their Web sites before submitting the flight data to BTS. ATA, RAA, and ACAA represent all but one of the carriers covered by the requirement to post flight delay data. The only reporting carrier that is not represented by these associations is Mesa, and the carrier associations have indicated in their petition that Mesa supports their request.
In addition, this change in the rule would be beneficial to consumers as it would require carriers to load data for the previous month on a particular day instead of allowing carriers to load information on their Web site over several days, thereby ensuring passengers are better able to compare flight performance data. It is also worth noting that when we requested comment in the NPRM on the proposal that carriers load data for the previous month between the 20th and 23rd day of the current month, we received no comments. See 73 FR 74586 (December 8, 2008).
On January 30, 2004, OST published a final rule adopting direct final rulemaking procedures intended to expedite the rulemaking process for noncontroversial rules (69 FR 4455). By using direct final rulemaking, OST can reduce the time necessary to develop, review, clear and publish a rule to which no adverse public comment is anticipated by eliminating the need to publish separate proposed and final rules.
OST anticipates that this amendment will not result in adverse or negative comment and, therefore, is issuing it as a direct final rule. Unless a written adverse or negative comment, or a written notice of intent to submit an adverse or negative comment is received within the comment period, the regulation will become effective on the date specified above. In that event, after the close of the comment period OST will publish a document in the Federal Register indicating that no adverse or negative comments were received and confirming the date on which the final rule will become effective. If OST does receive, within the comment period, an adverse or negative comment, or written notice of intent to submit such a comment, a document withdrawing the direct final rule will be published in the Federal Register, and a notice of proposed rulemaking may be published with a new comment period.
Interested parties are invited to participate in this rulemaking by submitting such written data, views, or arguments, as they may desire. Comments that provide the factual basis supporting the views and suggestions presented are particularly helpful in developing reasoned regulatory decisions on the proposal.
Pursuant to section 605 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), 5 U.S.C. 605(b), as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement and Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA), DOT certifies that this final rule does not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. The final rule does not impose any duties or obligations on small entities.
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) requires that DOT consider the impact of paperwork and other information collection burdens imposed on the public and, under the provisions of PRA section 3507(d), obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information it conducts, sponsors, or requires through regulations. DOT has determined that there is no new information collection requirements associated with this final rule.
Issued June 16, 2010, in Washington, DC.
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 234 Back to Top
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Department amends 14 CFR part 234 as follows:
PART 234—AIRLINE SERVICE QUALITY PERFORMANCE REPORTS Back to Top
1.The authority citation for Part 234 continues to read as follows: Authority:
2.In § 234.11, revise paragraph (c) to read as follows: § 234.11 Disclosure to consumers.
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