U.S. fines airlines $7.5 million and they must refund customers for canceled flights
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced action against six airlines but only one is a U.S. carrier; the others are foreign. "It's too little and too late," one consumer advocate says.
The Department of Transportation is cracking down on airlines that refuse to give customers refunds for canceled flights.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg Monday announced that the department is assessing fines totaling $7.5 million against six airlines, and the DOT is ordering those airlines to pay $600 million in refunds to hundreds of thousands of customers who had been denied them.
"When a flight gets canceled, passengers seeking refunds should be paid back promptly," Buttigieg said. "Whenever that
