BTC airs concerns over the DOT’s passenger protection rules

The Business Travel Coalition (BTC) has filed comments on the US Department of Transportation (DOT) passenger protection Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which concerns the transparency of ancillary revenues. BTC has concluded that the rule on the transparency / transactability of ancillary fees, which is one of many proposals within the NPRM, is “at significant risk of being delayed deep into 2015, or even halted indefinitely”. The BTC’s concern is that the DOT is likely to receive an avalanche of comments, analyses and studies during this NPRM process that will take it considerable time to work through. BTC and consumer