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 FlyersRights.org and Aviation Experts Ask Federal Court to Break FAA and Boeing’s Secrecy Pact and Release 737 MAX Documents FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FlyersRights.org and Aviation Experts Ask Federal Court to Break FAA and Boeing’s Secrecy Pact and Release 737 MAX Documents For more information, contact, Paul Hudson, President of FlyersRights.org, 800-662-1859, paul@flyersrights.org… Read More Operation AXE THE MAX FlyersRights, as the designated representative of the flying public to the FAA on safety, has been working hard to ensure the Boeing 737 MAX is not ungrounded unless it is safe. Toward that end we questioned Boeing on why it did NOT ground after the first crash in 2018, then publicly called for grounding shortly… Read More Washington Post: Is the government doing enough to protect air travelers? Is the government doing enough to protect air travelers? Excerpt: Paul Hudson, the president of FlyersRights.org, says the absence of clear regulation is part of a “nearly complete collapse of aviation consumer protection enforcement by the DOT.” He says that under the current administration, proposed rules are blocked and existing ones go unenforced. “Airline passenger… Read More DOT Refuses Air Travel Mask Mandate as President Trump Travels to Walter Reed FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DOT REFUSES AIR TRAVEL MASK MANDATE AS PRESIDENT TRUMP TRAVELS TO WALTER REED DOT denied the need for Flyers Rights’ rulemaking on the grounds that “most” airlines currently voluntarily adopt various forms of a mask rule and the notion that less regulation is better For more information, contact, Paul Hudson,… Read More Letter to Congressional Committees on Boeing and FAA Secrecy Text Only: September 14, 2020 The Honorable Chairman Roger Wicker, MS Senate Commerce Committee The Honorable Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, WA Senate Commerce Committee The Honorable Chairman Peter DeFazio, OR-4 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee The Honorable Ranking Member Sam Graves, MO-6 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee … Read More PODCAST! Emergency Rulemaking Petition Listen to the latest FlyersRights.org News Podcast on: Anchor Spotify Pocket Casts … Read More PETITION FOR EMERGENCY RULEMAKING – FACEMASKS We petition the Department of Transportation to publish an Emergency Rule – Air carriers and airport operators must require all persons to wear protective face masks or coverings:… Read More DOT’s Coronavirus Response Is Too Little, Too Late PRESS RELEASE FlyersRights Denounces DOT’s Coronavirus Guidance as Too Little, Too Late After taking over three months to respond to the coronavirus, DOT doubles down on its laissez-faire approach. For more information, contact, Paul Hudson, President of FlyersRights.org, 800-662-1859, paul@flyersrights.org Washington, DC, July 9, 2020- The Department of Transportation invited FlyersRights.org and… Read More FAA certification needs reform to prevent repeat of 737 MAX fiasco Flyers Rights issued the following comments on proposed Senate Air Safety Bill: The legislation introduced by Senator Wicker and Senator Cantwell is a step in the right direction. But as presently drafted the bill is inadequate to restore public confidence in aviation safety and would have been unlikely to have prevented the crashes of flight… Read More Wicker/Cantwell Senate Bill Is a Step in the Right Direction, But Fundamental Change Is Needed to Ensure Air Safety and Prevent Another 737 MAX Tragedy Text below: To: The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Re: Statement for the Record of the June 17th, 2020 Hearing Examining the Federal Aviation Administration’s Oversight of Aircraft Certification The legislation introduced by Senator Wicker and Senator Cantwell is a step in the right direction. But as… Read More
FlyersRights.org and Aviation Experts Ask Federal Court to Break FAA and Boeing’s Secrecy Pact and Release 737 MAX Documents FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FlyersRights.org and Aviation Experts Ask Federal Court to Break FAA and Boeing’s Secrecy Pact and Release 737 MAX Documents For more information, contact, Paul Hudson, President of FlyersRights.org, 800-662-1859, paul@flyersrights.org… Read More
Operation AXE THE MAX FlyersRights, as the designated representative of the flying public to the FAA on safety, has been working hard to ensure the Boeing 737 MAX is not ungrounded unless it is safe. Toward that end we questioned Boeing on why it did NOT ground after the first crash in 2018, then publicly called for grounding shortly… Read More
Washington Post: Is the government doing enough to protect air travelers? Is the government doing enough to protect air travelers? Excerpt: Paul Hudson, the president of FlyersRights.org, says the absence of clear regulation is part of a “nearly complete collapse of aviation consumer protection enforcement by the DOT.” He says that under the current administration, proposed rules are blocked and existing ones go unenforced. “Airline passenger… Read More
DOT Refuses Air Travel Mask Mandate as President Trump Travels to Walter Reed FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DOT REFUSES AIR TRAVEL MASK MANDATE AS PRESIDENT TRUMP TRAVELS TO WALTER REED DOT denied the need for Flyers Rights’ rulemaking on the grounds that “most” airlines currently voluntarily adopt various forms of a mask rule and the notion that less regulation is better For more information, contact, Paul Hudson,… Read More
Letter to Congressional Committees on Boeing and FAA Secrecy Text Only: September 14, 2020 The Honorable Chairman Roger Wicker, MS Senate Commerce Committee The Honorable Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, WA Senate Commerce Committee The Honorable Chairman Peter DeFazio, OR-4 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee The Honorable Ranking Member Sam Graves, MO-6 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee … Read More
PODCAST! Emergency Rulemaking Petition Listen to the latest FlyersRights.org News Podcast on: Anchor Spotify Pocket Casts … Read More
PETITION FOR EMERGENCY RULEMAKING – FACEMASKS We petition the Department of Transportation to publish an Emergency Rule – Air carriers and airport operators must require all persons to wear protective face masks or coverings:… Read More
DOT’s Coronavirus Response Is Too Little, Too Late PRESS RELEASE FlyersRights Denounces DOT’s Coronavirus Guidance as Too Little, Too Late After taking over three months to respond to the coronavirus, DOT doubles down on its laissez-faire approach. For more information, contact, Paul Hudson, President of FlyersRights.org, 800-662-1859, paul@flyersrights.org Washington, DC, July 9, 2020- The Department of Transportation invited FlyersRights.org and… Read More
FAA certification needs reform to prevent repeat of 737 MAX fiasco Flyers Rights issued the following comments on proposed Senate Air Safety Bill: The legislation introduced by Senator Wicker and Senator Cantwell is a step in the right direction. But as presently drafted the bill is inadequate to restore public confidence in aviation safety and would have been unlikely to have prevented the crashes of flight… Read More
Wicker/Cantwell Senate Bill Is a Step in the Right Direction, But Fundamental Change Is Needed to Ensure Air Safety and Prevent Another 737 MAX Tragedy Text below: To: The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Re: Statement for the Record of the June 17th, 2020 Hearing Examining the Federal Aviation Administration’s Oversight of Aircraft Certification The legislation introduced by Senator Wicker and Senator Cantwell is a step in the right direction. But as… Read More