FAA Makes Holiday Air Travel More Efficient:

• In May, FAA announced 169 new routes along the East Coast that are more direct, will save passenger time, airline fuel, and will increase safety. Read more here.
• To lessen inland volume and reduce delays during holiday travel, the FAA will use restricted airspace off the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico that the military releases to the FAA for commercial planes to use.
• The FAA has coordinated with the commercial space industry to make sure no launches are scheduled in the busiest times surrounding Thanksgiving.
• When there is weather or airspace congestion, and barring any safety concerns, the FAA minimizes delays for travelers by allowing commercial passenger aircraft that scheduled flight departures well in advance to take off first, while private business jets that often schedule late must wait.

Flight Cancellation Rates Down:

• Across the National Airspace System, 2023 has had the lowest cancellation rates in five years—even lower than before the pandemic.
• The percentage of scheduled flights cancelled is currently at 1.3% for 2023 across the National Airspace System. That’s down an entire point from 2.3% in 2022.

Consumer Rights Up:

Under the Biden-Harris Administration, the Department of Transportation has returned a record amount of refunds to travelers, issued the largest fines against airlines for failing passengers, and advanced the biggest expansion of airline consumer rights in decades.

• Since 2020, the Department of...

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