IATA chief: DOT consumer rule is a ‘yesterday solution’
Oct 15, 2014 Karen Walker
IATA CEO and DG Tony Tyler has called the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) proposed Consumer
Rule III a “yesterday solution” and warned against regulation that can stifle air travel innovation.
Speaking Wednesday at the IATA World Passenger Symposium in San Diego, Tyler said there was a “shadow
overhanging” initiatives to deliver a revolution in the passenger experience.
“Government regulators are substituting their own judgment for that of the marketplace. Their continued
interventions run the real risk of stifling the very initiatives we are pursuing for the second century of air
travel. This particularly is a problem in the United States, I am sorry to say. A prime example is the so-called
Consumer Rule III proposed by the DOT. This aims to address marketplace problems that do not exist,” Tyler
said.