Airlines and associations representing their interests are urging the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) to postpone the January 24, 2012 implementation requirement of baggage fee disclosure.
After already agreeing twice to delay implementation, airlines now need at least an additional year.
In an ominous note that has a tinge of a threat the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Air Transport Association, Regional Airline Association and Air Carrier Association of America in their joint filing said:
“If an extension is not granted, carriers would be forced to adopt error-prone makeshift procedures that would substantially delay passenger check-in, create long lines at airports [and] substantially reduce the availability of automated self-service check-in, including the fast-growing popular remote check-in systems.... Proceeding with the Jan. 24 implementation date also will increase the risk of delayed or lost bags, the associations say, and increase the likelihood that carriers will create “confusion and disenchantment” by applying the wrong carrier’s baggage fees."
So what's the point of deadlines? January 24, 2012 is the date that the airlines themselves had requested after two extensions had already been granted.
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