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USDOT Will Not Enforce Airline Passenger Disability Protections Pending Review

USDOT will postpone will not take enforcement action until next month.

Delta Air Lines and United Airlines emphasized that this will not result in additional frequencies between the US and South Africa.

In late January, a judge ruled that the DOT’s fee disclosure rule would be suspended until the DOT made the necessary changes.

Maria Cantwell also alleged that Steven Bradbury’s office interfered with the Committee’s investigation of the two fatal 737 MAX crashes.

Several of the country’s major carriers have teamed up with Airlines For America in an attempt to reverse the rule.

Both Sean Duffy and Elon Musk said that SpaceX, and not DOGE, will visit the FAA’s center in Virginia.

In addition to the calls to cull or modify the passenger protections, IATA asked Trump to review the mandatory pilot retirement at 65.

In a previous interview, Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation, warned that “bad things happen” when you do not focus on safety and systems.

Sean Duffy’s plan to involve DOGE to fix the National Airspace System (NAS) was met with sharp criticism.

Some FAA employees reportedly remarked that the message did not sit well among the agency.