Streamline Your Travel Receipt Format for Administration

Travel receipt format for Administration

right let's get back to the holiday travel the Transportation Security Administration expects to screen nearly 40 million passengers from December 19th through January 2nd that's a 6% increase from a year ago crowds started to build early this morning at Philadelphia International 990,000 people are expected to pass through the airport today alone and tomorrow's winter weather could cause some delays and cancellations our Josh sedoro witz joins us with more on the new rules in in place to protect air Travelers hi Josh yeah hey Alicia so this is the first holiday season with these new federal rules in effect to make it easier for you to get your money back if your travel gets upended when your plans to fly high turn into a stand still instead new rules now mean faster easier refunds for flight cancellations or significant disruptions if you choose not to be rebooked there are new DOT rules that are very helpful to Consumers some Airlines were better about this than others but this is this is a more uniform way the uniform policy now requires Airlines to issue refunds automatically within 7 to 20 days depending on how you paid and back to the original form of payment rather than as a voucher we saw this a lot during the covid pandemic Airlines would try to issue trip credits instead of giving you cash refunds and the government wants that kind of behavior to stop when it comes to delays the weather delayed us we our gate changed about 14 times in the span of 15 minutes the new rules also now clearly Define what a significant disruption is across Airlines spelled out as 3 hours or more for domestic flights and 6 hours or more for international Clint Henderson with a Points Guy travel site says it's also important to remember these easier refund rules now extend even beyond the ticket itself if you paid for seat assignment you paid for Wi-Fi uh if you got any of the goodies ahead of time that you did not end up receiving then you are entitled to a refund for those charges as well and that includes baggage fees a lot of people across the area today and this weekend too also dealing with delays and cancellations on Amtrak unlike Airlines they are not required to refund you at least not yet New Jersey's Congressional Delegation has proposed a so-called rail passenger Bill of Rights it would mandate refunds to passengers if your train is canceled or delayed by more than 3 hours we're in The Newsroom Josh Sor with CBS News Philadelphia okay Josh thank you for that