To direct the Secretary of Transportation to require certain air carriers to develop and regularly update an operational resiliency strategy, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill requires major airlines to create and maintain plans for handling severe weather, IT outages, and other events that cause flight delays and cancellations. The Secretary of Transportation must enforce these requirements, and the Government Accountability Office will audit how well the plans work after 3 years.
Who Benefits and How
Airline passengers benefit from stronger protections against flight disruptions, as airlines must now plan for staffing, technology failures, and cybersecurity risks. Consumer advocacy groups benefit from increased airline accountability and mandatory government oversight of airline resiliency planning.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Major airlines (covered carriers) must develop, regularly update, and submit detailed operational resiliency strategies, creating new compliance and administrative costs. They must disclose information about their IT systems, staffing models, and cybersecurity practices, though the bill protects trade secrets.
Key Provisions
- Airlines must submit resiliency plans within 1 year covering weather, staffing, IT systems, and cybersecurity
- Secretary of Transportation must protect confidential business information in submitted plans
- GAO must audit airline resiliency strategies within 3 years and report findings to Congress
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires major airlines to develop operational resiliency plans to prevent flight disruptions and protect passengers from delays and cancellations caused by severe weather, IT failures, and other disruptive events
Key Policy Areas
Transportation, Aviation, Consumer Protection
Primary Purpose
Requires major airlines to develop operational resiliency plans to prevent flight disruptions and protect passengers from delays and cancellations caused by severe weather, IT failures, and other disruptive events
Policy Domains
Main Bill
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Airline passengers
- Consumer advocacy groups
- Department of Transportation
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Major airlines (covered carriers)
- Airline IT departments
- Airline operations staff
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedAdditional sponsors: Mr. Stanton, Mr. Garamendi, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Brownley, …
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the …
Mr. Larsen of Washington (for himself and Mr. Cohen) introduced …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Airline IT and technology departments, Major scheduled passenger airlines (covered carriers)
Department of Transportation, Government Accountability Office
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Transportation
- "the_comptroller_general"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Has the meaning given such term in section 259.3 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), which refers to major scheduled passenger airlines
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