{"id":121440,"date":"2024-09-06T07:08:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usdot-launches-loyalty-program-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:08:15","slug":"the-us-department-of-transportation-is-asking-frequent-flyer-programs-to-justify-recent-devaluations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=121440","title":{"rendered":"The US Department Of Transportation Is Asking Frequent Flyer Programs To Justify Recent Devaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            The United States Department of Transportation (                                    <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258969\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-department-of-transportation\/\"  >DOT<\/a><\/span>                                        ) revealed today that it has launched an inquiry into the four largest airline loyalty programs in the US. The inquiry is being conducted to protect frequent flyers from potentially unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive practices and will require airlines to justify any devaluations made over the past six years.                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines have three months to explain changes to their respective loyalty programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868,396,402,4421,1112,3435,920,1867,3655,3717,5474,1866,1777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aadvantage","category-aircraft","category-airline-news","category-department-of-transportation","category-dot","category-frequent-flyer-program","category-loyalty-programs","category-mileageplus","category-points-and-miles","category-rapid-rewards","category-secretary-pete-buttigieg","category-skymiles","category-us-department-of-transportation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121441,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121440\/revisions\/121441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}