Katie Porter Has A Bill To Hammer Airlines That Strand Customers

With Southwest Airlines passengers inactive stranded successful galore parts of the country, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) has a measure to clasp the airlines accountable.

Rep. Porter tweeted:

We besides request to tackle consolidation successful the hose industry. When corporations don't person to vie for consumers, it's easier to hike prices and present sub-par service. This is an contented crossed industries—from airlines to grocers to summons vending. (2/3)

— Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) December 28, 2022

Airlines are expected to refund travelers wrong 20 days for a cancelled flight, but they’re seldom penalized for failing to bash so. I person a measure that not lone gets radical their wealth backmost sooner, but besides fines airlines 10x the archetypal terms for not promptly issuing a refund.

— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) December 28, 2022

Rep. Porter tin beryllium expected to reintroduce her caller measure astatine the opening of the adjacent Congress. Porter nailed the problems. Poor regularisation means that a institution similar Southwest tin tally its scheduling and operations connected thirty-year-old exertion and software.

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Airlines besides don’t fearfulness the mistreatment of customers due to the fact that determination are fewer consequences and penalties. Porter would hole that by imposing a good of 10 times the outgo of each passenger’s summons who was abandoned.

Porter has been a tireless advocator for consumers during her clip successful Congress, and adjacent successful what volition surely beryllium a dysfunctional majority, she volition proceed to support warring for consumers.

The hose manufacture is excessively consolidated, underregulated, and the existent US instrumentality lacks capable extortion for consumers.

The House GOP circus is acceptable to travel to municipality successful the adjacent fewer days, but determination are competent nationalist servants similar Katie Porter who volition proceed to combat to clasp ample corporations accountable.

Jason is the managing editor. He is besides a White House Press Pool and a Congressional analogous for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree successful Political Science. His postgraduate enactment focused connected nationalist policy, with a specialization successful societal betterment movements.

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