AAI Speaks at U.S. DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee Meetings on Airline Ancillary Fees and Transparency in Distribution of Airline Information

AAI appeared as a speaker at the DOT’s ACPAC meetings on June 28-29, 2022. The notice of the pubic meeting and description of the two-day agenda is available here. The ACPAC evaluates current aviation consumer protection programs and provides recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation for improving them, as well as recommending any additional consumer protections that may be needed. The June 28th ACPAC meeting considered how best to ensure the disclosure of ancillary service fee information to consumers and whether the sharing of information between airlines and ticket agents is needed to ensure that consumers have access to ancillary fee information when they purchase air transportation from ticket agents. The June 29th ACPAC meeting focused on enhancing access to airline flight information, including examining what is meant by airline flight information and how best to ensure that consumers can more easily find a broader set of available flights.