Picture it, Friend: You’ve been saving and saving month after month – a few hundred dollars here and there, maybe $50 you have left over at the end of the week – all to fund a well-deserved vacation for you and your family.
Then, the unthinkable happens. The world shuts down as a pandemic ravages every continent. People lose their jobs. People lose their friends, their family members, their own lives. It becomes excruciatingly difficult just to “get by” as the economy teeters on the brink of a depression.
And those thousands of dollars in airline tickets purchased for the vacation that never happened? Does it get returned to help during this challenging time? That hard-earned money never made it back into your bank account. No – instead, airline giants sent out credits to use those flights at another time, and then had the nerve to give those credits an expiration date.
This is precisely what happened to millions of Americans. Major airlines – worth collectively tens of billions of dollars – refused to refund ticket holders during the pandemic, and now, they are trying to put an expiry date on when Americans can use the travel they already paid for.
If you’re as outraged as I am, then join me in taking action. I’ve been leading the charge in the Senate to hold airlines accountable for passively robbing Americans of their hard-earned money, and I could use your help. Will you sign my petition now urging Congress to hold airlines accountable for refusing to put consumers first during the coronavirus pandemic?
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel in America, Friend. The vast majority of Americans have received at least one COVID vaccine dose. Infection rates are dropping wherever vaccination rates climb. Businesses are reopening. And with the July 4 holiday coming up, many Americans are hoping to return to a more normal life and begin traveling again. They deserve it.
But now, as things are finally opening up more than a year after the pandemic began, the paltry one-year expiration dates airlines set on flight vouchers have long since passed. So not only have people lost their planned travel…they have actually been robbed at the same time. The airlines should, at bare minimum, let consumers use these promised vouchers at any time. After all, it was the American taxpayers who bailed the airline industry out of this crisis, and there should be no blank-check industry bailouts without a commitment to consumer protection.
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Thank you,
Dick
