Federal court shoots down airline passengers “bill of rights”
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The U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, reversed a lower-court decision and ruled that New York overstepped its authority in enacting the airline passengers’ bill of rights, which took effect Jan. 1.
The legislation was taken up after a series of reports in 2006 and 2007 that passengers had spent many hours in planes as they waited for takeoff, and they were not provided with food, drink and other services they needed. Under the law, airlines have been required to provide food, drinks, proper ventilation and functioning toilets if a plane has been sitting on an airport tarmac more than three hours. New York was the first state to pass a passengers’ bill of rights.
“Although the goals of the PBR (passengers’ bill of rights) are laudable and the circumstances motivating its enactment deplorable, only the federal government has the authority to enact such a law,” the 2nd Circuit decision said.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
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