{"id":1180,"date":"2016-08-11T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/delta_cancellations\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:50:26","slug":"delta_cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/delta_cancellations\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL statement on Delta Airline\u2019s mass cancellations  &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start --><\/p>\n<p>August 11, 2016<\/p>\n<p><!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\">Contact: Cindy Hoang, National Consumers League,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cindyh@nclnet.org\">cindyh@nclnet.org<\/a>, (202) 207-2832\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC\u2014In light of this week&#8217;s system-wide failure at Delta Airlines and subsequent cancellations of thousands of flights, the National Consumers League (NCL) today calls on Congress to investigate the lack of consumer protections when airlines suffer from widespread outages. The following statement is attributable to Sally Greenberg, executive director of NCL:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is outrageous that while airlines are enjoying record profits, they remain unable to provide the most basic level of customer service. Delta\u2019s system failure that resulted in flight cancellations was compounded by ineffective interlining agreements between carriers, which left consumers stranded and without alternative transportation options. This failure is yet another example of how the lack of competition is harming consumers. It is up to leaders in Congress to hold the airlines accountable and to demand stronger consumer protections from industry and the Department of Transportation to not only ensure that this never happens again, but to also ensure that consumers receive the refunds they deserve for their canceled flights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America&#8217;s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 11, 2016 Contact: Cindy Hoang, National Consumers League,\u00a0cindyh@nclnet.org, (202) 207-2832\u00a0 Washington, DC\u2014In light of this week&#8217;s system-wide failure at Delta Airlines and subsequent cancellations of thousands of flights, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9995,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/9995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}