In the last four years, the Biden administration has spearheaded laws that benefit passengers. Airline executives have criticized some of these laws as overarching and hope that the incoming Trump administration will be more business-centric rather than consumer-centric, or, in other words, "a breath of fresh air." What the airline executives said Recently, the heads of both Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines have criticized the Biden administration's United States Department of Transportation (DOT), which passed rules that greatly benefit airline passengers and, in their view, hurt airlines.
According to Newsweek , Delta Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian, had this to say about the incoming Trump administration's Transportation Department: “[We expect the new administration] take a fresh look at the regulatory environment, the bureaucracy that exists in government, the level of overreach that we have seen over the last four years within our industry." The criticism is directed at some of the regulations passed over the last four years. In April, the DOT passed a regulation requiring airlines to automatically issue cash refunds to passengers within a few days for canceled flights and flights with significant delays.
The regulation is seen as a win for travelers who have historically jumped through hoops and battled airlines for their refunds for cancellations and delays. Another industry titan, Robert Jordan, the CEO of Southwest Airlines, had this to say: "We are hopef.
