Good news/Bad news on the air travel scene.
We all remember the airport fiasco in the New York area last winter when a storm grounded Jet Blue and American Airlines flights for hours, leaving passengers without food, bathrooms and patience.
Well, the inspector general of the federal Transportation Department has issued the results of a report that finds that the airline industry is still dragging its heels over defining passenger rights when excessive delays occur and standards governing when they will let stranded passengers off stranded planes.
The report concludes that some airlines have established guidelines for themselves, but they vary from carrier to carrier. In a remarkable bit of bureaucratic no-speak, the inspector general, Calvin L. Scovel said, ”We think it is unlikely that passengers’ definition of an extended period of time will vary depending upon which airline they are flying.” It’s no wonder passengers’ advocates are calling the report “weak.”
For their part, the Air Transport Association, testified before a House of Representatives subcommittee that forcing the airlines to adopt “an arbitrary time frame to deplane passengers will have numerous unintended consequences” that they say will just make the situation worse.
Caught in the middle is you or your boss, rolling your luggage behind you. The crises of the airline industry inevitably affect business, and the increased opportunity for mobility is one of the values of engaging a virtual professional. Hopefully, the pressures of today’s security concerns, as well as the recent customer service debacles will force the carriers to establish a more responsive and safer airline system.
In the meantime, let’s hope for a mild winter and keep an eye on the lobbyists and the lawmakers as they hammer at the problem.
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