[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2662 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2662

  To require the Secretary of Transportation to collect certain data 
     pertaining to cancelled and diverted flights of air carriers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2007

 Mrs. Schmidt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Transportation to collect certain data 
     pertaining to cancelled and diverted flights of air carriers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MONTHLY AIR CARRIER REPORTS.

    (a) Requirement.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall require 
under section 41708 of title 49, United States Code, each air carrier 
that submits to the Secretary airline service quality performance 
reports to also submit to the Secretary a monthly report on each flight 
of the air carrier that is diverted from its scheduled destination to 
another airport and each flight of the air carrier that departs the 
gate at the airport at which the flight originates but is cancelled 
before wheels-off time.
    (b) Contents.--A report under subsection (a) shall include, at a 
minimum, the following information:
            (1) For a diverted flight--
                    (A) the flight number of the diverted flight;
                    (B) the scheduled destination of the flight;
                    (C) the date and time of the flight;
                    (D) the airport to which the flight was diverted;
                    (E) wheels-on time at the diverted airport;
                    (F) the time, if any, passengers deplaned the 
                aircraft at the diverted airport; and
                    (G) if the flight arrives at the scheduled 
                destination airport--
                            (i) the gate-departure time at the diverted 
                        airport;
                            (ii) the wheels-off time at the diverted 
                        airport;
                            (iii) the wheels-on time at the scheduled 
                        arrival airport; and
                            (iv) the gate arrival time at the scheduled 
                        arrival airport.
            (2) For flights cancelled after gate departure--
                    (A) the flight number of the cancelled flight;
                    (B) the scheduled origin and destination airports 
                of the cancelled flight;
                    (C) the date and time of the cancelled flight;
                    (D) the gate-departure time of the cancelled 
                flight; and
                    (E) the time the aircraft returned to the gate.

SEC. 2. PUBLICATION.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall compile the information 
provided in the monthly reports filed pursuant to section 1 in a single 
monthly report and publish such report on the Web site of the 
Department of Transportation.
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