Overview
- President Donald Trump’s Transportation Department formally ended the proposal on Friday after flagging a potential withdrawal in September.
- The shelved plan would have required airlines to pay $200 to $300 for domestic delays of at least three hours and up to $775 for longer disruptions.
- USDOT said it prefers to let carriers compete on service and compensation rather than impose new minimums that it argues would raise airline costs.
- Democratic senators, including Richard Blumenthal, Maria Cantwell and Ed Markey, had urged the administration to keep the measure in place.
- The department will pursue related deregulatory steps, including redefining what counts as a cancellation for refunds and revisiting ticket pricing, advertising and fee-disclosure rules, even as the EU, Canada, Brazil and Britain maintain delay-compensation regimes.