Airline baggage fees are the worst – that’s something we can all agree on.
Slightly worse? When you paid money to check your bag, and it’s delayed.
Soon, new rules will require airlines to refund your baggage fees if your luggage is delayed or lost.
With the new law, “passengers won’t have to spend a ton of time tracking down a refund when the airline doesn’t deliver,” said U.S. Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, during remarks on the Senate floor earlier this month.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the new regulations will require an airline to “promptly provide to a passenger an automated refund for any ancillary fees paid by the passenger for checked baggage” if the luggage does not arrive within 12 hours of a domestic flight’s arrival or 15 hours of an international flight’s arrival.
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