Need help? Call Now! 877-FLYERS6 (877-359-3776) Know Your Rights plane is delayed my baggage is lost I'm Stranded I need to change or cancel flights Read more about your rights Join Us Subscribe to our newsletter Name First Last Email* Changing & Improving air travel begins here Sign our Petitions Volunteer Products and Services Partners and Allies Travelers Resources Donate Your donations enable us to protect your rights Latest Posts FLYERS RIGHTS v. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (cont’d) We are moving forward! The court just issued a new scheduling order and rejected the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposal to “process” (but not necessarily release) the relevant 86 documents of 10,000 at 500 pages per month. Boeing and the FAA by 3/20/20 will now have to identify any documents it claims are exempt from… Read More DOT Refusal To Regulate International Change Fees Upheld By Appeal Court The DOT’s refusal to regulate international change fees is upheld by Appeal Court. The law mandates that fees be “reasonable”, but can now exceed $1000. The court deferred to “Agency Discretion”. This will require legislation to overturn, and may be cited to allow DOT and other agencies discretion to not enforcing many other laws.… Read More A New Way of Seeing – (relevant to the Kobe crash) Medical Imaging, User, Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, and Normal Failure (Use arrows to scroll down slides)… Read More Another Day, Another MAX Software Problem Cue another “pushback” of MAX certification- to: “How About Never”? … Read More Our Helicopter Safety Recommendations FlyersRights’ helicopter safety briefing to the Senate Commerce Committee and House Transportation Committee –… Read More Kobe Bryant did not have to die Kobe Bryant and his group traveled on a helicopter that did not have a warning device installed. This warning device most likely could have saved 7 lives in this helicopter crash in Southern California. Similarly, six tourists died on the Island of Kauai a few weeks ago. Several deadly helicopter crashes had made headlines… Read More Boeing’s problem was not engineering. It was a loss of corporate empathy By Gregory Travis – a software architect, aircraft owner and writer. His first article identifying the issues with the 737 Max appeared in the May 2019 issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine. Boeing’s most recent attempt to demonstrate a fix for its troubled MCAS system is another demonstration of just how deep the problem is. Most… Read More FlyersRights’ Appearance on Cheddar TV to Discuss Helicopter Safety Staff Attorney Andrew Appelbaum appears on Cheddar TV to discuss helicopter safety and FAA loopholes that enable only 15% of helicopters to comply with 1994 safety standards. … Read More Helicopter Safety Features Avoided By FAA Loopholes – Kobe Bryant Tragedy Re-post following the Kobe Bryant tragedy. In 2018 we called on the FAA to step up and regulate helicopters after delaying for two years to study the issue. Safety features are avoided by loopholes in regulations, including structural elements, impact-resistant seating, and systems to prevent fuel from igniting on impact. Bryant’s helicopter was a Sikorsky… Read More FAA “Lowered The Bar” In Approving SWA Hawaii Flights After months of bad 737 MAX revelations, now this. The U.S. government’s Office of the Special Counsel announced last week they are investigating the Federal Aviation Administration on how it handled the approval process to let Southwest Airlines fly between California and Hawaii, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Special Counsel’s office that found… Read More
FLYERS RIGHTS v. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (cont’d) We are moving forward! The court just issued a new scheduling order and rejected the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposal to “process” (but not necessarily release) the relevant 86 documents of 10,000 at 500 pages per month. Boeing and the FAA by 3/20/20 will now have to identify any documents it claims are exempt from… Read More
DOT Refusal To Regulate International Change Fees Upheld By Appeal Court The DOT’s refusal to regulate international change fees is upheld by Appeal Court. The law mandates that fees be “reasonable”, but can now exceed $1000. The court deferred to “Agency Discretion”. This will require legislation to overturn, and may be cited to allow DOT and other agencies discretion to not enforcing many other laws.… Read More
A New Way of Seeing – (relevant to the Kobe crash) Medical Imaging, User, Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, and Normal Failure (Use arrows to scroll down slides)… Read More
Another Day, Another MAX Software Problem Cue another “pushback” of MAX certification- to: “How About Never”? … Read More
Our Helicopter Safety Recommendations FlyersRights’ helicopter safety briefing to the Senate Commerce Committee and House Transportation Committee –… Read More
Kobe Bryant did not have to die Kobe Bryant and his group traveled on a helicopter that did not have a warning device installed. This warning device most likely could have saved 7 lives in this helicopter crash in Southern California. Similarly, six tourists died on the Island of Kauai a few weeks ago. Several deadly helicopter crashes had made headlines… Read More
Boeing’s problem was not engineering. It was a loss of corporate empathy By Gregory Travis – a software architect, aircraft owner and writer. His first article identifying the issues with the 737 Max appeared in the May 2019 issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine. Boeing’s most recent attempt to demonstrate a fix for its troubled MCAS system is another demonstration of just how deep the problem is. Most… Read More
FlyersRights’ Appearance on Cheddar TV to Discuss Helicopter Safety Staff Attorney Andrew Appelbaum appears on Cheddar TV to discuss helicopter safety and FAA loopholes that enable only 15% of helicopters to comply with 1994 safety standards. … Read More
Helicopter Safety Features Avoided By FAA Loopholes – Kobe Bryant Tragedy Re-post following the Kobe Bryant tragedy. In 2018 we called on the FAA to step up and regulate helicopters after delaying for two years to study the issue. Safety features are avoided by loopholes in regulations, including structural elements, impact-resistant seating, and systems to prevent fuel from igniting on impact. Bryant’s helicopter was a Sikorsky… Read More
FAA “Lowered The Bar” In Approving SWA Hawaii Flights After months of bad 737 MAX revelations, now this. The U.S. government’s Office of the Special Counsel announced last week they are investigating the Federal Aviation Administration on how it handled the approval process to let Southwest Airlines fly between California and Hawaii, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Special Counsel’s office that found… Read More