{"id":145239,"date":"2024-10-30T12:41:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T02:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dot-automatic-refund-policy-airline-passengers\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T02:41:39","slug":"what-the-dots-new-automatic-refund-policy-means-for-airline-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=145239","title":{"rendered":"What The DOT&#8217;s New Automatic Refund Policy Means For Airline Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258537\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-airlines\/\"  >US airlines<\/a><\/span> are now mandated to provide passengers with cash refunds should their flight suffer from a lengthy delay or become canceled. The requirement is part of a new ruling issued by the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257307\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/dot\/\"  >Department of Transportation (DOT)<\/a><\/span> on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling covers necessary compensation for canceled flights, baggage delays, and applicable ancillary fees.<\/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":[396,8321,3173,13240,14200,4709,8394,2699,1777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-ancillary-fees","category-baggage-fees","category-commercial-aviation","category-delayed-flights","category-flight-cancelations","category-refunds","category-us-airlines","category-us-department-of-transportation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145239","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=145239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145243,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145239\/revisions\/145243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}