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US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

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663 points duxup | 2 comments | 24 Sep 25 12:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Lio ◴[24 Sep 25 15:39 UTC] No.45361891[source]▶
> Airlines want to remove the requirement to provide automatic refunds when flights are cancelled or significantly altered.

This is wild. Are they really asking to be able to take money for a flight, then cacel it and keep the money? That's crazy.

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1. rpcope1 ◴[24 Sep 25 16:31 UTC] No.45362678[source]▶
Airlines are basically as stupid and greedy as telcos. If it were up to them, GA aircraft, UAVs, model aircraft and basically anything that wasn't military or an airliner would be banned. It has strong analogs in telcos swallowing up large amounts of spectrum "cause muh 5 gee" and just squatting on it. I'm sure safety would be in the shitter too if the FAA was less watchful (not to say it's sufficiently aggressive on the big players today).
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2. sokoloff ◴[24 Sep 25 17:50 UTC] No.45363701[source]▶
Every one of their pilots learned to fly in a GA or military aircraft, with the vast majority being GA.