Air passenger rights law....REJECTED

[flyinhigh6165]

NEW YORK - A federal appeals court has rejected a law requiring airlines to provide food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passengers trapped in a plane delayed on the ground.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that New York's new state law interferes with federal law governing the price, route or service of an air carrier. It was the first law in the nation of its kind.
The appeals court said the new law was laudable but only the federal government has the authority to enact such a regulation.
The law was challenged before the appeals court by the Air Transport Association of America, the industry trade group representing leading U.S. airlines.

 

[Guitar Guy]

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that New York's new state law interferes with federal law governing the price, route or service of an air carrier. It was the first law in the nation of its kind.
The appeals court said the new law was laudable but only the federal government has the authority to enact such a regulation.

If there is another slew of passengers trapped on a plane, it's likely that the federal government may finally act even with ATA lobbying to the contrary.

 

[XPOO]

The fresh air thing was pretty laughable. Jet exhaust while sitting on a tarmac would smell lovely inside the aircraft.

 

[COOPERVANE]

I may be wrong, but one of the original demands of the pax bill of rights was that if ANYONE at ANYTIME wanted to get off the airplane, they must be allowed the option.

THAT part of the bill of rights would have lasted about a week after 200 gate returns.

No gate available+late flight+businessman late for a meeting=1 guy making the flight 4 hours late or canceled

 

[Salukipilot4590]

HA! I dont even know wether to laugh or...well laugh harder...

 

[rickair7777]

Good thing they CANX it. If every state started passing their own customer service laws it would create a legal spiderweb...CA's would be getting indicted weekly for failure to follow some obscure state law that they didn't even know about.