. U.S. Department of Transportation proposals would require airlines to notify consumers of optional fees and changes to bag fee policies, among other measures. The National Business Travel Association in a statement urged DOT to "require airlines to provide fees information along with faring information such that any platform selling airline inventory can acquire and display the fees information for those researching and booking travel, without dictating how the fees data be transmitted or displayed." Similarly,
Business Travel Coalition chairman Kevin Mitchellpenned a signatory letter submitted today to DOT imploring regulators "to require airlines to make add-on fee data easily accessible not only on their Web sites, but also to the travel agency channel--through any global distribution system--in which an airline has agreed to participate." The letter was signed by scores of corporations and travel management companies.