On 8/4/2022, “If your flight is canceled or delayed three hours for a domestic flight or six hours for an international flight, you must get a refund within seven days of a refund request if you pay by credit card,” said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. “That refund policy also applies if they change your arrival airport, if they add more stops or if they downgrade the class you’re flying in.”
During the White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre started with, “so we all — we all know how annoying it is when your flight is canceled or delayed and then it either takes forever to get your money back or you only get a flight credit for that airline. I’m sure many of you have gone through that in the last several months. Today, the Department of Transportation issued a new rule to fix that. If your flight is canceled or delayed three hours for a domestic flight or six hours for an international flight, you must get a refund within seven days of a refund request if you paid by credit card. That refund policy also applies if they change your arrival airport, if they add more stops, or if they downgrade the class you’re flying in. The rule also has new protections if you can’t fly due to a panc or medical advice. Under the DOT’s proposal, when that happens, you’re entitled to a non-expiring travel credit or voucher or a refund if it’s an airline that got government assistance during the relevant public health emergency.”
The department will accept comments from the public for 90 days before finalizing the rule.
Reporter: Tomorrow is jobs day, which is like Super Bowl for some of us. (Laughter.) Friday’s —
Jean-Pierre: Is it really? (Laughs.)
Reporter: Look, there are a lot of nerds — (laughter) —
Jean-Pierre: Wow.
Reporter: — in Washington.
Jean-Pierre: I don’t follow the Super — I don’t follow football, but wow.
Reporter: I’m just saying —
Jean-Pierre: That’s —
Reporter: — 12 Super Bowls a year is great. (Laughter.)
Jean-Pierre: Sounds exhausting. (Laughs.)
Reporter: Friday’s employment report is expected to show the job gains last month slowed to 250,000 from 372,000 in June. Does the administration view this as a sign the economy is healthy?
Jean-Pierre: So, as we’ve been saying for many months now, we are in a — and the President — including the President — has been saying that we’re in the transition to a stable and steady growth. And during that transition, what you’ll see is instead of that record-high-breaking number — job numbers that we’ve been seeing every month in the realm of 500,000 to 600,000 jobs on average per month, we’re expecting to be closer to 150,000 jobs per month. And so that would actually sign — that will be a sign of — of a success of this transition. And this kind of job growth is consistent with the lower — the low unemployment numbers that we’ve been seeing — that rate of 3.6 percent. And we see that and others have seen — see that as a healthy economy.
Reporter: Thanks, Karine. When was the last time President Biden spoke with Senator Sinema?
Jean-Pierre: I don’t have a call to read out to you at this time.
Reporter: Okay. Can you tell us how he views his role in getting the Inflation Reduction Act over the finish line? I know you’ve been asked some version of this question probably every day this week. I’m trying to take another stab at it though. What does he think he needs to do? Is he going to be picking up the phone? Will he be inviting senators over here? What — how does he view his role?
Jean-Pierre: Well, I can tell you how he views this anti-inflation piece of legislation. He’s grateful for it. He thinks it should be passed … So that’s how he sees his role in continuing to talk about it … And — but he’s been very clear: He wants to see this pass and — and to his desk so he can sign.
Reporter: Yeah, but, given how important he believes it is, as you just laid out: He took a decidedly step back and let Senators Schumer and Manchin really be the two engaged in the negotiations to get the Inflation Reduction Act to this point. So I guess the question is: Does he feel like he wants to have a more direct engagement in these final rounds of negotiations with Senator Sinema asking for changes now?
Jean-Pierre: So what we’ve been pretty clear about … I think, though, what is important — I know there’s always this focus on Democrats and on what’s happening with members — Democratic members in the Senate. I think what’s important here is: When you look at this bill, when you look at this — this anti-inflation piece of legislation, and you look at the support across the country, it is bipartisan … And it’s Republicans in Congress who are opposing us. They’re the only ones who are opposing this. And I think that’s what matters.
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New refund rule for canceled or delayed flight ; Tomorrow is jobs day, which is like Super Bowl.