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Family Seating in Air Transportation
The Transportation Department published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on August 9, 2024. Comments closed on October 8, 2024.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) is proposing to require U.S. and foreign air carriers to seat children aged 13 and under adjacent to at least one accompanying adult at no additional cost beyond the fare, subject to limited exceptions. The Department considers family seating to be a basic service, essential for the provision of adequate air transportation, that must be included in the advertised fare. Under this proposal, a carrier's failure to provide family seating would subject it to civil penalties on a per passenger (child) basis, and if the carrier charged families a fee beyond the fare to secure family seating, the carrier would be subject to civil penalties for each fee imposed.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-17323
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
- Agency
- Transportation Department
- Published
- August 9, 2024
- Comments due
- October 8, 2024
- Dates
- Comments should be filed by October 8, 2024. Late-filed comments will be considered to the extent practicable.
- Docket
- Docket No. DOT-OST-2024-0091
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2105-AF15
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 14 CFR 259; 14 CFR 261
- Topics
- Air carriers; Consumer protection; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 23
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