HOTLINE: 1(877)FLYERS6 EMPLOYEE TIPLINE: 1(877)887COST
|
HOTLINE: 1(877)FLYERS6 EMPLOYEE TIPLINE: 1(877)887COST |
Live Flight Tracking - Flightstats.com Free Membership - Sign the Petition Live Flight Tracking - Flightaware.com
| Breaking News! Streaming Audio - Podcasts Press Releases Home The Bill of Rights Take Action Who we Are Contribute Horror Stories Merchandise Legislation Big Airline Greed Emergency Kit Complaints to Airlines and Read their Responses Stranded Passengers Blog Contact Your Congressman News and Events Newsletters Events June 2007 Report Card Sept 2007 Strand-In Final 2007 Report Card Downloads |
EMERGENCY ALERT:
AIRLINES
GET $500M INSURANCE SUBSIDY WHILE PASSENGERS GET BUMPED
Congress will take up the measure again in 6 months: We’ll need your help to fight back!!! WASHINGTON – The President has on his desk legislation passed by both Houses of Congress that gives the airlines $500 million in “war insurance” guarantees paid by tax dollars, but does not contain an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights that would even give relief to flyers stuck inside the aircraft while planes’ departures are delayed. Flyersrights.org President Kate Hanni today mobilized our members to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again when Congress renews the legislation next spring. “The airlines’ lobbyists’ campaign donations have bought them a seat in First Class this time, while the passengers are stuck back in coach, but this is just a short flight,” said Hanni, who explained that the the new Congress will have to take the FAA Reauthorization up again in March. “We’re calling on our members to ask House and Senate candidates for their commitment to support an enforceable Flyers Bill of Rights as part of FAA Reauthorization in the Spring.” “Today, the airlines can keep you stranded indefinitely on the tarmac in a sealed metal tube, and there’s nothing you can do about it. We’re only asking that after 3 hours, they take you back to the terminal and let you get some fresh air, food, fresh water and a toilet that works.” “Maybe if more Members of Congress rode in coach with the rest of us instead of flying in First Class or on corporate jets, they’d be more compassionate. In the meantime, we’ll make sure their constituents know how they’re giving their airline donors big bucks while passengers get bumped.” Hanni, a private citizen who took on the airlines after she was forced to sit for 9 hours waiting for a flight to take off, says that the Coalition will do “everything in our power” to mobilize citizen pressure on candidates for the House and Senate in last weeks of the campaign, asking them to commit to support inclusion of an enforceable Passengers’ Bill of Rights as part of the FAA Reauthorization. ------------------------------------------------------ |
.
|