Changes to American flight rules.

[Tidewater]

Some changes, mostly good ones.

1. No bare feet on the flight.
2. Tighter controls on "emotional support animals." A dude from Florida had a boa constrictor in his bag.
3. Crackdown on boarding before your boarding group.
4. For domestic flights you must have a Real ID compliant drivers license. In Virginia, you had to pay an extra $10 to get the "real ID compliant" drivers license. Not sure about elsewhere.
5. If you flight gets cancelled or significantly delayed, the airlines have to refund (via the means you used to pay for the ticket), including any other fees like seat upgrades.

Also being considered, banning plastic straws, nuts (for those with nut allergies), and limiting how much booze you can drink on the flight.

 

[Toddrn]

Some changes, mostly good ones.

1. No bare feet on the flight.
2. Tighter controls on "emotional support animals." A dude from Florida had a boa constrictor in his bag.
3. Crackdown on boarding before your boarding group.
4. For domestic flights you must have a Real ID compliant drivers license. In Virginia, you had to pay an extra $10 to get the "real ID compliant" drivers license. Not sure about elsewhere.
5. If you flight gets cancelled or significantly delayed, the airlines have to refund (via the means you used to pay for the ticket), including any other fees like seat upgrades.

Also being considered, banning plastic straws, nuts (for those with nut allergies), and limiting how much booze you can drink on the flight.

These are some good changes. I got my real ID in 2018. For me no one should fly with an emotional support animal, just a service animal.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

can we put a ban on everyone that tries to switch seats? Almost every flight I have ever been on someone requests to switch my seat with their spouse. The seat is never better. It is always worse. Now I politely refuse and just ignore the person the rest of the flight. It is just annoying to even be asked.