Pete Buttigieg just made it easier to get refunds on canceled flights
Right wingnuts are furious at Pete Buttigieg again. This time they’re upset with him for, wait for it, making it easier for travelers to get refunds on canceled flights.
The 42-year-old Transportation Secretary just announced new federal rules that say airline customers are entitled to automatic cash refunds, not vouchers or travel credits, whenever an airline screws up.
“From now on, when your flight is canceled for any reason, you are entitled to an automatic cash refund and it has to be prompt,” he told CNN today.
“If you get delayed significantly, that means three hours domestically, six hours internationally, or if there’s another significant change to your itinerary–like maybe you were going to go into one airport, they actually changed the airport on you or something like that–you’re going to get your money back.”
Sounds fair to us!
The new rules also require airlines are more transparent about about fees for baggage, seating upgrades, or changing flights (a.k.a. “junk fees”), as well as issue refunds on fees for bags that arrive more than 12 hours late on domestic flights or 15 to 30 hours late on international flights. Refunds must also be issued for in-flight WiFi fees if the internet goes down mid-flight, and upgraded seat fees if the seats are no longer available at boarding time.
In other words, airlines will actually have to provide the goods and services they charge people for. Also, no more hidden fees!
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 26, 2024 3:40 PM
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This is the way it should be.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 25, 2024 3:49 PM
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I read the article linked in the OP as I couldn't understand why anyone would be mad at this. It seems like people reply to anything he writes on Twitter with hate, regardless of what he says.
“You are the poster child for why DEI hires are a bad idea,” one person remarked.
Why? Surely bringing in a consumer protection measure as a "DEI hire" would show such hires are a good thing? Just shows how homophobes are stupid.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 25, 2024 3:57 PM
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I’m sorry but he looks like Bugs Bunny or maybe The Grinch in that photo
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 25, 2024 6:49 PM
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He does look like a rabbit in that photo. He better work on his appearance if he really plans to run for President in 2028.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 25, 2024 7:24 PM
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So does this mean that ticket agents or gate agents will be expected to give "automatic cash refunds" under the circumstances listed?
You just know that the crazy people that fly these days will be lining up for their "cash refund".
I foresee that the long lines of people trying to just check in will be a worse nightmare with added refund seekers in the queue.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 25, 2024 8:31 PM
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Will we also be seeing armed robberies at the airports when thieves realize that the agents will have loads of cash on hand?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 25, 2024 8:33 PM
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Tickets, I'm sure, will be refunded the way they were bought. I'm guessing nearly 100% are bought on-line with a credit card. So no cash refund, but a credit card refund from the agent, no questions asked.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 25, 2024 8:46 PM
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The OP's quote from Pete reads "automatic cash refunds".
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 25, 2024 8:51 PM
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Pete for Prez 2024. Biden needs to step aside. Or shuffle aside.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 25, 2024 8:53 PM
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Ok he’s forgiven for that stupid bullet train endorsement.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 25, 2024 9:24 PM
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I don’t want a refund. I want the airline to get me to my destination asap, by whatever means necessary.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 25, 2024 9:38 PM
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The stupid bitch at R12 thinks bullet trains are stupid?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 25, 2024 9:41 PM
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Don’t make me fly Spirit!
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 25, 2024 9:48 PM
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I've never been on a flight that's been canceled.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 25, 2024 9:52 PM
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He could do the opposite of this or anything in between, and the nuts would be mad at him about that, too. Meanwhile, life goes on.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 25, 2024 10:01 PM
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R13 must fly Oleta Adam’s Airlines.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 25, 2024 10:07 PM
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The kind of people criticizing him.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 26, 2024 10:40 AM
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The pic of Pete @OP makes him look like Alfred E. Neuman.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 26, 2024 12:58 PM
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Pete just delivers and delivers and delivers. Amazing man. Can't wait until he's President.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 26, 2024 1:06 PM
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[quote] Pete just delivers and delivers and delivers. Amazing man.
That's exactly what his husband says each morning.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 26, 2024 3:40 PM
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